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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
beyond the reach of falling ruins; but

suddenly the quay sunk down with all the

people on it, and not one of the dead bodies

ever floated to the surface. A great number of

boats and small vessels anchored near it, all

full of people, were swallowed up as in a

whirlpool. No fragments of these wrecks ever

rose again to the surface, and the water in the

place where the quay had stood is stated, in

many accounts, to be unfathomable; but

Whitehurst says he ascertained it to be one

hundred fathoms.

“In this case, we must either suppose that a

certain tract sunk down into a subterranean

hollow, which would cause a ‘fault’ in the

strata to the depth of six hundred feet, or we

may infer, as some have done, from the entire

disappearance of the substances engulfed,