Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Another Deluge Predicted. [ARTICLE]

Another Deluge Predicted.

A Belgian professor has published a work entitled “ Periodicite des Grands Deluges Resultant du Mouvement Graduel de la Ligne des Aspides de la Terre,” in which he warns us that we may be on the lookout for another deluge of the world. At certain regularly-recur-ring intervals, he maintains, the waters of one hemisphere are suddenly precipitated across the equator and flood the other. The last of these deluges, which always flow from north to south, or from south to north, was that of Noah’s times, which was from the north. Hence the explanation of the great preponderance of water in the southern hemisphere, and of the general southern trend of North and South America, Africa, and many minor peninsulas. The next of these deluges will flow from the south to the north. The cause, he argues, is the alternate increase and decrease of the ice-caps at the poles, and the consequent change of the world’s equilibrium. Since 1248 the South pole has been continually enlarging, while the North pole has been proportionately diminishing, today the diameter of the southern glacier being about 3,000 miles, and that of the northern 1,500. When these two glaciers shall have arrived at their maximum and minimum extension, then will the earth tilt over and be submerged by another great flood, the fifteenth of the kind that has occurred.