The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings On the Two ...
The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings On the Two ...
Hugh Miller
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292 THE NOACHIAN DELUGE. ark. Seventy-eight years from the time he began to build this ship, the ocean of a sudden broke out, and all the inland seas and the rivers and fountains bursting from beneath (attended by the most violent rains from heaven for many days), overflowed all the mountains ; so that the whole human race was buried in the waters, except Noa and his fimiily, who were saved by means of the ship, which, being lifted up by the waters, rested at last upcm the top of the Gendyae or... Mountain, on which, it is reported, there now renudneth some part, and that miea take away the bitumen from it, and make use of it by way of charm or expiation, to avoid evil." A more general Assyrian tradition, somewhat different in its details, also survives.* The god Chronus, it was siud, appeared in a vision to Xisuthrus, the tenth king of Babylon ; and, warn- ing him that on a certain day there would be a great flood upon the earth, by which mankind would be destroyed, he enjoined him to build a vessel, and to bring into it his friends and relatives, with everything necessary to sustain life, and all the various animals, birds, and quadrupeds.
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