Note 971 — Chapter IX · THE LANDS
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Gervase said that the waters for the Flood came from the bowels of the earth and from the air above. They rose to a level of fifteen cubits above the summits of the mountains which are now in existence, “quia tunc terram dicunt in planitie factam” (Otia imper., vol. i, p. 907). See above, pp. 170–171.