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The chief, besides that recorded in the Bible, are the following:—The deluge of Fohi, the Chinese; the Satyavraʹta, of the Indians; the Xisuthʹrus, of the Assyrians; the Mexican deluge; and the Greek deluges of Deucaʹlion and Ogʹygēs.
⁂ The most celebrated painting of Noah’s Flood is by Poussin, in Paris; and that by Raphael is in the Vatican (Rome).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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