The following is an extract from “Ancient Literature,” by J. D. Quackenbos, A. M., M. D., pp. 111, 112:— “But the mounds that so long covered the site of Nineveh have recently surrendered their treasures. Clouds that environed the history of the past have been dissipated; ancient nations, for ages wrapped in obscurity, we no longer ‘see through a glass darkly;’ and the narrative of the inspired writers of the Bible has been in many places confirmed by the inscriptions disentombed in the East. Among the most interesting fragments found scattered through the ruined ‘Chambers of Records’ of the Assyrian palace, are the tablets relating to the creation, the fall of man, and the deluge, copied from Babylonian records hundreds of years older than the Pentateuch.”