Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 3 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; And to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity Pressions must have been left upon their minds, after they had survived the fearful event. The sacred write} hags moteover giveur'tls the reasons, why it pleased God to bring this ood upon the World, to the destruction of the work of his hands. The earth was corrupt befdre God; and the earth was filled with violeriee. And God looked upon the. Earth, and behold, it was corrupt for all esh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto. Yank, jxfl'tze of uttfiesh is'eom tefare me for the earth isfilled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee and ark of Gopherww'ood. - And this 28 the fashion, which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall he three hundred cuhits, the fifty cuhits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shaltjthou mate to the ark, and in a cahit shalt thou finish it above and thebdoor of the ark shalt thou set in the side tlzereofimthus did Noah according to all, that Go so as amalgam went in, and his eye; and his ms wives with em, rm we. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."