THE WATERS ASSUAGED 



Underwood & Underwood 

 GREAT PLAINS EEET AFTER FLOODS IN MESOPOTAMIA 



Both the Babylonians and the Assyrians preserved accounts of a great deluge. The 

 Assyrian hero of that world calamity was Gilgamesh, who corresponded to Noah in the 

 Hebraic account of a great catastrophe which destroyed all mankind (see pages 16S and 212). 



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