Part 1621 of 5100 from book39
The idea ofbook28 a stretch of five or six miles by no means disconcerted him and therefore so long as he was in the open lake he thought only of striking out straight ahead and manfully. More than one island that previously seemed to have the solidity of rock has been submerged in this way and the people living along the shores of the mainland have had to pick up the unfortunate survivors of these terrible catastrophes. But as he approached the land a thought at first fleeting and then tenacious arose in his mind.... more