On the principle of “first know you are right, then go ahead,” I have been very slow in making public the results of my discovery. But having become thoroughly satisfied that I have a reasonable thing of it, have ventured to publish it. It has appeared in brief articles in the Galesville INDEPENDENT, in order to invite general inspection, and criticism. When God made man to dwell on the face of the earth, He, evidently, must place him somewhere. In giving the antldiluvians a description of the c

It is located on the “eastward bank” of the Mississippi River, between the beautiful cities of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Winona Minnesota. Please notice the beauty and euphony of those names. The Mississippi—the bible Euphrates—river, being one of the longest and most picturesque rivers in the world. Its valley, proper—with its tributaries, some of which reach far out into “Havilah” the “Land of good gold” —extends from the Alleghany mountains on the eastern border, 2,000 miles westward to the R