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y tjfj v v- s hzn tvvtfiffl the tribune stouffville onty thursday april 26 1945 noahs ark because of the natural interest in an article on noahs ark pub lished in this paper recently and which was really only a synopsis of a magazine story we read the editor herein gives a further refer ence to the finding of the ark by the same australian a geastman and from other sources which makes interesting reading and food for thought- first it is to be remembered that the bible tellsus the ark rested upon mount ararat this mount is in the country we call armenia today and is part of the territory of soviet russia between the cas pian and black seas its height is given as 17000 feet the discovery of the ark was made by some rus sian aviators just before the rus sian revolution in 1917 these aviators were stationed at a lonely temporary air outpost about 25 miles nw of mount ararat it was on a terribly hot august day and they looked with longing eyes at the white snowcap of mount ararat which is always snowcapped because of its height now here is the account of one of these men how we longed for some of that snow then the miracle happened the captafn walked in and an nounced that plane no 7 had its new supercharger installed and was ready for high altitude tests and ordered my buddy and me to make the test at last we could escape the heat needless to say we wasted no time in getting ready no use wasting time warming up the engine when the sun had it nearly red hot we circled the field until v e hit the 14000 foot mark and then stopped climbing for a few minutes to get used to tne altitude i looked over the right at that beautiful snowcapped peak now just a little above us and for some reason i cant explain turned and headed the plane straight toward it- aly buddy turned around and look ed at me with question marks in his eyes but there was too much noise for him to ask questions after all 25 miles doesnt seem much at a hundred miles an hour as i looked down at the great stone battlements surrounding the lower part of this moiyitain i re membered having beard that it had never been climbed since the year 700 bc when some pilgrims were supposed to have gone up there to scrape some tar off an old ship wreck to make good luck emblems to wear around tlir neck to pre vent their crops being destroyed by excessive rainfall the legend said that they had left in hasle after a bolt of light ning struck near them and they had never returned silly ancients who ever heard of a shipwreck on a mountain top a couple of miles around the snowcapped dome and then a long swift glide down the south side and then we suddenly came upon a perfect gem of a lake blue as a sapphire but still frozen over on the shady side we circled round and returned for another look at it suddenly my companion whirled around and yelled something and excitedly pointed down at the overj flow end of the lake i looked andi nearly fainfed a submarine no it wasnt for it had stubby masts designer had expected the waves to roll over the top- most of the time and had engineered it to wallow in the sea like a log with those stubby masts carrying enough sail to keep it facing the waves years later in the great lakes i saw the famous whaleback orecarriers with the same kind of rounded deck we flew down as close as safety permitted and took several circles around it we were surprised when we got close to it at the immense size of the thing for it was as long as a city block and would compare very favourably in size to the modern battleships of today it was grounded on the shore of the lake with onefourth under water it had been partly dismantl ed on one side near the front and on the other side there was a great doorway nearly twenty feet square but with the other door gone this seemed quite out of proportion as even today ships seldom have doors even half that size after seeing all we could from the air we broke all speed records down to the air port when we related our find the laughter was loud and long some accused us of getting drunk ori too much oxygen and there were many other remarks too numerous to re late the captain however was serious he asked us several ques tions and ended by saying take me up there i want to look at it we made the trip without incident and returned to the airport what do you make of it i asked as we climbed out of the plane astound- legend of noahs ark has to do with bur finding this strange thing four teen thousand feet up on a moun tain top this strange craft explained the capjfcin is noahs ark it has been sitting up- there for nearly five thousand years being frozen up for nine or ten months of the year it couldnt rot and has been in cold storage as it were all the time you have made the most amazing discovery of the age when the captain sent this report to the russian government it arous ed considerable interest and the csar sent two special companies of soldiers to climb the mountain one group of fifty men attacked one side and the other group of one hundred men attacked the big mountain from the other side two weeks of hard work were required to chop out a trail along the cliffs of the lower part of the mountain and it was nearly a month before the ark was reached complete measurements were taken and plans drawn of it as well as many photographs all of which were sent to the csar of russia the ark was found to contain hundreds of small rooms and some rooms very large with high ceilings the un usually large rooms had a fence of great timbers across them some of which were two feet thick as de signed to holds beasts ten times as large as elephants other rooms also were lined with tiers of cages somewhat like one sees today at a poultry show only instead- of chicken wire they had rows of tiny showedall the signs of ahigh type of civilizations the wood used throughout was oleander the gopher of gen 615 which belongs to the cypress family and never rots which of course coupled with the fact of it being painted and it being frozen charred over and the roof completely burned off a few days afterthis expedition sent its report to the czar the government was overthrown and godless bolshev ism took ever so that the records were never made public and prob ably were destroyed in the zeal of the bolsheviks to discredit all re ligion and belief in the truth of the bible we white russians of most of the time accounted for itss fleet escaped through armenia perfect preservation the expedi tion found on the peak of the mountain above the ship the burn ed remains of the timbers which were missing out of one side of mie ship it seems that these timbers had been hauled to the top of the peak and used to build a tiny one- room shrine inside of which was a rough stone hearth like the altars gen s20 the hebrews used for sacrifices and it had either caught fire from the altar or had been struck by lightning a the timbers were considerably burned and and four of us came to america where we could be free 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