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[ In May 1849 the Tigris at Bagdad rose 22-1/2 feet—5 feet above its usual rise—and nearly swept away the town. In 1831 a similarly exceptional flood did immense damage, destroying 7000 houses. See Loftus, Chaldea and Susiana, p. 7.]
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[ See the instructive chapter on Hasisadra's flood in Suess, Das Antlitz der Erde, Abth. I. Only fifteen years ago a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gave rise to a flood which covered 3000 square miles of the delta of the Ganges, 3 to 45 feet deep, destroying 100,000 people, innumerable cattle, houses, and trees. It broke inland on the rising ground of Tipperah, and may have swept a vessel from the sea that far, though I do not know that it did.]
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[ See Cernik's maps in Petermanns Mittheilungen, Erganzungashefte 44 and 45, 1875-76.]
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[ I have not cited the dimensions given to the ships in most translations of the story, because there appears to be a doubt about them. Haupt (Keilinschriftliche Sindfluth-Bericht, p. 13: says that the figures are illegible.)]
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[ It is probable that a slow movement of elevation of the land at one time contributed to the result—perhaps does so still.]