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73:3.1 The committee on location was absent for almost three years. It reported favorably concerning three possible locations: The first was an island in the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf]; the second, the [[river]] location subsequently occupied as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden]; the third, a long narrow [[peninsula]]—almost an island—projecting westward from the eastern shores of the [[Mediterranean]] Sea.

73:3.1 The committee on location was absent for almost three years. It reported favorably concerning three possible locations: The first was an island in the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf]; the second, the [[river]] location subsequently occupied as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden]; the third, a long narrow [[peninsula]]—almost an island—projecting westward from the eastern shores of the [[Mediterranean]] Sea.

73:3.2 The committee almost unanimously favored the third selection. This site was chosen, and two years were occupied in transferring the world's [[cultural]] [[headquarters]], including the [[tree of life]], to this [[Mediterranean]] [[peninsula]].[http://press.daynal.org/catalog/atlantis.html] All but a single [[group]] of the [[peninsula]] dwellers peaceably vacated when [[Van]] and his company arrived.

73:3.2 The committee almost unanimously favored the third selection. This site was chosen, and two years were occupied in transferring the world's [[cultural]] [[headquarters]], including the [[tree of life]], to this [[Mediterranean]] [[peninsula]].[https://press.daynal.org/catalog/atlantis.html] All but a single [[group]] of the [[peninsula]] dwellers peaceably vacated when [[Van]] and his company arrived.

73:3.3 This [[Mediterranean]] [[peninsula]] had a [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salubrious salubrious] [[climate]] and an equable temperature; this stabilized [[weather]] was due to the encircling [[mountains]] and to the [[fact]] that this area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the [[surrounding]] highlands, it seldom rained in [[Eden]] proper. But each night, from the extensive network of [[artificial]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation irrigation] channels, a "mist would go up"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.2]  to refresh the [[vegetation]] of [[the Garden]].

73:3.3 This [[Mediterranean]] [[peninsula]] had a [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salubrious salubrious] [[climate]] and an equable temperature; this stabilized [[weather]] was due to the encircling [[mountains]] and to the [[fact]] that this area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the [[surrounding]] highlands, it seldom rained in [[Eden]] proper. But each night, from the extensive network of [[artificial]] [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation irrigation] channels, a "mist would go up"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.2]  to refresh the [[vegetation]] of [[the Garden]].

73:3.4 The coast line of this [[land]] mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great [[river]] that watered [[the Garden]] came down from the higher lands of the [[peninsula]] and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] to the [[sea]] beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took [[origin]] in the coastal hills of the Edenic [[peninsula]], and these are the "four heads" of the [[river]] which "went out of Eden,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.2] and which later became [[confused]] with the branches of the rivers surrounding the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden].

73:3.4 The coast line of this [[land]] mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great [[river]] that watered [[the Garden]] came down from the higher lands of the [[peninsula]] and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] to the [[sea]] beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took [[origin]] in the coastal hills of the Edenic [[peninsula]], and these are the "four heads" of the [[river]] which "went out of Eden,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_genesis#Chapter_.2] and which later became [[confused]] with the branches of the rivers surrounding the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden].

73:3.5 The [[mountains]] [[surrounding]] [[the Garden]] abounded in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_stones precious stones] and metals, though these received very little [[attention]]. The dominant [[idea]] was to be the [[glorification]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticulture horticulture] and the exaltation of [[agriculture]].

73:3.5 The [[mountains]] [[surrounding]] [[the Garden]] abounded in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_stones precious stones] and metals, though these received very little [[attention]]. The dominant [[idea]] was to be the [[glorification]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticulture horticulture] and the exaltation of [[agriculture]].

73:3.6 The site chosen for [[the Garden]] was probably the most [[beautiful]] spot of its kind in all the world, and the [[climate]] was then [[ideal]]. Nowhere else was there a location which could have lent itself so perfectly to becoming such a [[paradise]] of [[botanic]] [[expression]]. In this rendezvous the cream of the [[civilization]] of [[Urantia]] was forgathering. Without and beyond, the world lay in [[darkness]], [[ignorance]], and [[savagery]]. [[Eden]] was the one bright spot on [[Urantia]]; it was naturally a [[dream]] of loveliness, and it soon became a [[poem]] of exquisite and [[perfected]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape landscape] [[glory]].

73:3.6 The site chosen for [[the Garden]] was probably the most [[beautiful]] spot of its kind in all the world, and the [[climate]] was then [[ideal]]. Nowhere else was there a location which could have lent itself so perfectly to becoming such a [[paradise]] of [[botanic]] [[expression]]. In this rendezvous the cream of the [[civilization]] of [[Urantia]] was forgathering. Without and beyond, the world lay in [[darkness]], [[ignorance]], and [[savagery]]. [[Eden]] was the one bright spot on [[Urantia]]; it was naturally a [[dream]] of loveliness, and it soon became a [[poem]] of exquisite and [[perfected]] [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape landscape] [[glory]].

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