And thus was it, concerning this little book which I had made
discovery of; for it told again, that which oft I had heard (even
as we in this age, read of the Deluge) how that once, in a time
monstrous far back from that, but utter future to this age of ours,
the world did brake upwards in a vast earth-quaking, that did rend
the world for a thousand miles.
And there came a mighty chasm, so deep that none might see the
bottom thereof; and there rushed therein an ocean, and the earth
did burst afresh with a sound that did shake all the cities of the
world; and a great mist lay upon the earth for many days, and there
was a mighty rain.
And, indeed, this was just so set in certain Histories of the
Ancient World. Also, there was made reference to it, within some
olden Records. Yet
