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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1430, 13 December 1886, Page 3

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The above is n e proper tit’© of the patriarch of that name described in Genesis, if the discoveries (or rather theories) of Mr Cepe Whueh-mse are hereafter confirmed by independent investigation. The paper written by this gentleman goes >o show that the sou of Jacob constructed a canal of even greater dimensions than that of M. de Lessens ; for at the season of high Nile over twenty million cubic metres of water passed through it daily. This water way *8 st 11 partly in existence, and Mr Cope Whilehouse also contends that it fed Lake Morris, the site of which he also claims to have discovered. Indeed, he goes farther, and propounds a scheme for refilling the lake (the depression still existing) at a cost of £200,000, This reservoir would provide the means of flooding about 2000 square leagues of desert. The ancient take seems to have been the result of one of the grandest engineering schemes of that or any other time. One of the most interest'ng parts of Mr Whitehonse’s memorandum was the lit-ht It shed on the difficult 49th chapter of Genesis. He shows with soma force that the prophesy related strictly to Lgypt, and not, as supposed, to the Promised Land, and that Indeed they were actually fulfilled in the former country. Thus the frnitful branch of Joseph was really the canal which watered »ho territory of Joseph’s descenders, etc. The Hon of Judah is identified with that of the Sphinx, the wolf of Benjamin with the canal in the province Kinieth and the serpent of Dan he thinks be haa a clue to in the pabyrus of the Labyrinth, which has lately been discovered. The paper pltoptfaer fe ooe of Iromeiw interest,