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The Christian overlooked this ferocious inundation and shook his head. On a mound near him stood the spirit of the mob concentrated and personified. It was crazed Posthumus. He was screaming: "It is finished; the law is run out! All prophecy is fulfilled!" And over his head he was swinging a parchment fiercely burning. It was the Scroll of the Law!
"No, thank you, monsieur," replied she, in her usual calm voice. "But, madame," cried Henri, in despair, "the water gains on us; do you hear! do you hear?" Indeed, a horrible crashing was now heard; it was the dyke of a neighboring village giving way, to swell the inundation.
We did not find any accumulation of rubbish to indicate a rush of water to any one point; but numerous minor channels existed to distribute the floods equally and generally over every part of the area subject to them, and the marks of inundation and subsidence were everywhere the same.
The English minister, instead of fine and imprisonment and other inflictions which might have placed them in the rank and estimation of martyrs, and confirmed in their faith their numerous disciples, encouraged a dramatic author to bring out a farce on the subject which, though neither very witty nor very delicate, had the good effect of laughing the French prophets out of their audience and putting a stop to an inundation of nonsense which could not have failed to disgrace the age in which it appeared.
Some doctrinal systems fail to grasp the mercy of God with as much vigor and energy as they do the Divine justice, while others melt down everything that is scriptural and self-consistent, and flow along vaguely in an inundation of unprincipled emotions and sensibilities. The same fact meets us in the experience of the individual. We either fear too much, or too little.
It will, therefore, be a correct specimen of the system of dikes and ditches throughout the country, though some of the sections are subject to greater or less difficulty in the drainage, owing to various causes, which will be explained. "When the dike around Ysselmonde is finished, the country is protected from inundation from without.
Major Brown has lately shown that the nucleus of "Lake Moeris" was the Birket el Kûrûn. This was known to the Egyptians as Miri, Mi-ûri, the Great Lake, whence the Greeks derived their Moiris a name extended also to the inundation of the Fayûm.
But often the water does not find a course by which to flow away; and then, when the snow begins to melt, the water seeps into the fissures, loosens the mass that chokes up the valley, and carries it down, rending its banks as it goes, carrying away bridges, mills, and trees, and overthrowing houses. The avalanche has become an inundation.
I cited a case I knew of, where a wounded German had hidden in the inundation for five days rather than surrender to the horrors he thought were waiting for him. When he was found and taken to a hospital his long days in the water had brought on gangrene and he could not be saved. "They have been told that to make them fight more savagely," was the comment.
And I showed him, a dozen meters high, long hollow gouges, marks of former erosions on the rocky wall. "In an hour the waters will reach that height. Those are the marks of the last inundation. Let us get started. There is not an instant to lose." "All right," Morhange replied tranquilly. We had the greatest difficulty to make the camels kneel.
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