There is enough water now on the earth and in its rocky frame to make an hundred terrific deluges, every one of which could drown the world of living beings. In early days man believed there was a great deep on high. The sources of the deluge were “broken up,” and never again can the world be destroyed from that source. If the fountains of the deep were on the earth or in the seas then they are not “broken up.” If they were in the clouds, they were not, for that source still exists. Then we must believe that they came from beyond the clouds. With the fountain of the great deep placed on high--the veritable waters above the firmament--we can readily understand why the “windows of heaven were opened,” and why “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up.” The rainbow proclaims these facts around the circuit of the earth. How does it happen that the author of Genesis relates these facts with such harmonious accord, with all the conditions which an Annular arrangement of water necessitated, if the idea was not familiar to his mind? The presence of upper vapors entering the atmosphere on their way to the earth by the way of the polar regions necessitated an atmosphere of greater buoyancy and power, and this necessitated greater bodily frame. Hence it is said: “There were giants in those days.” There were giants among animals as well as men. LEGENDS OF THE DELUGE. Such wide-spread desolation as is accredited to the deluge of Noah must have made an indelible impression upon the human mind. We would naturally look for references to it in Aryan, Phoenecian, Greek and Hebrew history. They were the guardians of civilization. It is not difficult to co-link even the rudest form of the flood traditions with the terrible visitation so graphically related by Moses. Its shadow will never pass from the historic page. Men may criticise and ridicule the narrative given by Moses, yet the fact remains that a self-sustaining history is there; and the combined sophistry of all time cannot shake it. An account of that great catastrophe is found in the mythological narratives and traditional history of nearly or quite every people and tribe of Adam’s race. It is found among the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Scythians and Celtic tribes. It has been discovered among the Peruvians and Mexicans; the aborigines of Cuba, of North America and the South Sea Islands. Even the inhabitants of Alaska preserve a tradition of the deluge; and all point unmistakably to the deluge of Noah. Recent investigations in the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon and in ancient cities of Egypt confirm it by tablets preserved as veritable books. Tradition as she sits amidst the crumbling ages of the past sings it in our ears, while the sound of a universal deluge has gone out through all the earth. It would require volumes to present these traditions alone. AUGMENTATION OF OCEANIC WATERS.