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One of the wildest, I fear, is the Astronomer-Royal's, that the deluge was simply a great rising of the Nile; and Sir G. Airy is so confident respecting this that he says, 'I cannot entertain the smallest doubt that the flood of Noah was a flood of the Nile; precisely as he might say, 'I cannot entertain the smallest doubt that the earth moves round the sun. On one point we can entertain very little doubt indeed.
Notwithstanding the stir about invasion and amateur rifle-clubs, other matters do get talked about as, for instance, the astronomer-royal's communication to the Society of Antiquaries on the place of Cæsar's landing at his invasion of Britain.
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