We will try to locate this garden of Eden geographically, as nearly as possible correctly. Verse 8: "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward of Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." That was very kind of God. Verse 9: "God planted the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." A wonderful tree surety. What is most to be regretted is that the species has become extinct. What a boon to humanity if but one tree were planted in every church. Verse 10: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it parted, and became into four heads." Verse 11: "The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold." Verse 12: "And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone." Verse 13: "And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia." Verse 14: "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." Assyria was founded about 2247 B.C. and is situated near the Persian gulf; and seems to be wedged in between the Persian empire on the east, Arabia on the west, or Badien el Arab, and on the southern point the gulf of Persia. Ethiopia comprises Nubia, Sennaar, and Northern Abyssinia, and takes in a stretch of country on the west shore of the Red sea. The two countries are separated by the Red sea, and by Arabia, which extends from the east shores of the Red sea to the west shores of the Gulf of Persia, and Assyria. Some one made a big blunder, or Johnston's atlas is wrong, or they--God--made a mistake in the name. There is considerable distance between the two countries. Assyria lies in Asia and Ethiopia in Africa. Egypt lies farthest north of what is usually known as Ethiopia. Assyria is hemmed in, north by Armenia, west by Media and Susiana, south and southeast by Babylon and Mesopotamia. The river Tigris is the dividing line on the south and southeast. The Parachoatras and Zagrus mountains form the dividing line on the western border, and Armenia is the boundary on the north. Chaldea is, comparatively speaking, a small tract of land situated between the river Euphrates and the Arabian desert, or Badien el Arab, with Babylon on its north and the Gulf of Persia on the southwestern point. The river Euphrates takes its rise in the Gulf of Persia and runs westward, and divides into four branches. The first branch, the Pasitigris, runs somewhat westward through Susiana; the second, Chaosper or Kirkhah, runs northward through Susiana; the third, the river Tigris, runs north, northwest, separating Babylon from Susiana by Assyria; the fourth, the river Euphrates, the farthest south, runs westward, etc.