Note 12 — ANNO DOMINI 2071.
Alexander V. W. Bikkers translation
A slight north-north-easterly direction, and a few minutes sufficed to bring us near to my native home, which to us, from our vessel, looked like its outline in an atlas. Only how terrified I was to see that there was something wanting on the map. The whole province of North Holland,12 minus a few diminutive islands, seemed to have disappeared. Not even trusting my eyes, I asked the “trunculant figure” who, Bacon said, was my countryman: Was the whole of North Holland imbedded in the sea?