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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
were still more appalling. There, during the

same time, two thousand two hundred and

sixty-three persons perished by floods, fires,

and other disasters. To mention some, in India

and Egypt, nearly twenty-two thousand fell

victims to the cholera. Then comes the

earthquake at Ischia, Italy, July 28, with nine

thousand victims, and the volcanic eruptions

and subaqueous earthquake of Java, August

26, in which a tract of country fifty miles

square, containing a range of mountains sixty-

five miles in length, sunk below the level of the

ocean, whose waters rushed in, and now cover

all that space. Islands also in the adjacent

straits of Sunda disappeared, and in all one

hundred thousand persons are supposed to

have perished. This gives the appalling

aggregate of over one hundred and thirty

thousand persons who perished by violent