P890:8, 80:2.4
About the time of these climatic changes in Africa, England separated from the
continent, and Denmark arose from the sea, while the isthmus of Gibraltar, protecting
the western basin of the Mediterranean, gave way as the result of an earthquake,
quickly raising this inland lake to the level of the Atlantic Ocean. Presently
the Sicilian land bridge submerged, creating one sea of the Mediterranean and
connecting it with the Atlantic Ocean. This cataclysm of nature flooded scores
of human settlements and occasioned the greatest loss of life by flood in all
the world's history.