A deluge over the whole earth is an impossibility.
1. We have to take in consideration the inequality of the earth’s surface—lowlands, highlands, hills and mountains, plateaus, etc.
As to mountains: Asia possesses no less than sixty or seventy mountains, the highest being some 29,000 feet above the sea’s level—the Himalaya, Everest.
Africa boasts of some thirty or forty mountains, the Kenia and Killamandja being 20,000 feet above the level of the sea, the other mountains grading downward in hight.
Europe is adorned with some seventy or eighty mountains, Mount Blanc being the highest, others ranging downwards.
South America boasts of some forty or more mountains, the Tupengater being the highest, 22,450 feet above the level of the sea.
North America counts some seventy or more mountains, Mt. Elias being 17,900 above the level of the sea.
We have plateaus and table-lands ranging from 10,000 feet above the level of the sea downward to near the sea’s level.
The great basins between the highest points of the earth’s surface are filled with water. These immense expanses form oceans, seas, lakes, rivers. The ocean bed is just as uneven as the dry portion of the earth’s surface. The numerous islands are the mountains of the ocean bed, some of greater, others of lesser extent.
2. The fluid part of the terrestrial globe fills the hollow places of the solid portion of the earth’s crust. These are the great and small depressions, or greater and smaller basins.