George A. Smith, Robert L. Campbell, and Eliza R. Snow are shown the purported skull of Father Adam in the Holand Land; Eliza informed they do not know how this identification was made.

Date
1875
Type
Letter
Source
George A. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

George A. Smith, letter to Robert L. Campbell, February 26, 1873, in Correspondence of Palestine Tourists; Comprising a Series of Letters by George A. Smith, Lorenzo Snow, Paul A. Schettler, and Eliza R. Snow (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1875), 199

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News
People
Eliza R. Snow, Robert L. Campbell, George A. Smith, Adam
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

. . . our guide, Isaac, told us gravely that there was the rock cleft at the crucifixion, from which was taken the skull of Adam, and took us into an adjoining room, called the Greek Church, and there showed us a small pedestal which he said was the centre of the world, and under it was buried the skull of our father Adam, which they had moved some thirty feet from where it was claimed to be found, for the sake of laying it in the exact centre; it even made me smile, and when Sister Snow gravely enquired how they identified the skull to be Adam's, he honestly replied he did not know.

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