M. Prevost maintains, contrary to the generally received opinion, that there has been but one great inundation of the earth; and that the various remains of plants, animals, &c., which have given rise to the supposition of successive inundations, have been floated to the places in which they are occasionally found.

What with inundations in summer and sand-drifts in winter, this locality must have some drawbacks as a residence.

The thought of the services of my bell, in averting lightning and inundation from the good people of Epinal, fills me with indescribable beatitude.

to enquire into The Condition of the Exchequer Standards. 1868 Sept. 19 The Inundation at Visp.

There comes a tide in the affairs of men when the years lap softly, leaving no particular inundations on the celebrated sands of time.

And therefore the inhabitants, at such time as the riuer Nilus floweth, are accustomed to open a great ditch, the head wherof extendeth into the said riuer, and from thence they conueigh the same within halfe a mile of Alexandria, and so consequently by meanes of conduct-pipes the water commeth vnto the cesternes of Alexandria, which being full serue the citie from one inundation to another.

Pursuing my walk along the river's bank, upon an artificial dyke, sufficiently high and broad to protect the fields from inundation by the ordinary rising of the tidefor the whole island is below high water markI passed the blacksmith's and cooper's shops.

The soil on the bank of the river is good and well-grassed, but the inundations during the rainy season extend on each side of the river several miles.

Thus has been rubbed out from the face of the earth a river which had once its cities, its sages, its warriors, its works of art, and its inundations like the classic Nile; but which so existed in days of which we have scarcely a record.

Figure to yourselves the whole force of Europe collecting its violence, like a troubled sea, and preparing to pour a terrific and destructive inundation over the Holy Land!