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tity of water in the ocean, it continued to rise in awful 

 majesty, and threaten universal destruction by its re- 

 sistless force, sweeping across the neighbouring con- 

 tinents. 



A cursory view, or even a glance at the subject, will 

 enable us to form an idea of the operations that must 

 naturally have occurred, from this new order of things. 

 The current, bursting through each avenue, swept in 

 its course every yielding substance. In a short space 

 of time, the southern and eastern coast of Labrador, 

 over which this current was urged with increasing 

 force, was desolated. The soil, which, before, had 

 fertilized this rocky coast, was hurled adrift, and 

 mingling with the waters, was carried across the coun- 

 try into the gulf of St. Lawrence, and across a part of 

 New-England, into the sea or general current of the 

 ocean. 



The waters continuing to rise, soon inundated the 

 frozen regions of Iceland and Greenland, and urging 

 on their precipitous course, swept across Davis's straits, 

 and rolled their tumultuous surges into Hudson's bay, 

 embracing the whole coast of Labrador, while the un- 

 equal current of the St. Lawrence was forced back 

 and upwards to its parent source. 



At this stage of the general deluge, while the waters 

 were overwhelming the earth, the awful denunciations 

 of an offended God were fast fulfilling, by the sure 

 and utter extirmination of every beast of the field, and 

 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the 



earth. At length, the floods of the pole forming a 



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