In his book Northern and Eastern Tartary, Nikolaas Witsen mentions the flood as something that happened long ago. However, from the descriptions that he gives, we can conclude that this could have happened just a few years before he wrote about it:
“In Amsterdam, a well was dug 232 feet deep, and at a depth of more than 100 feet, many thousands of slingshots and shells were found, as well as hair and horse dung. The deeper they dug, the smaller the slingshots came across, as my grandfather witnessed, who left me a significant number of them. It is curious that in color and appearance these are such slingshots, which are now not found here on the seashore. They are very similar to some of those that are brought from the Moluccas, and which in shape and color are similar to those that were sent to me from Batavia, but in a larger size. The main color of most of them is white, and around there is a cylindrical chestnut or dark purple triple circle. They are called dates, or date pits, because of their resemblance to real pits. Those that were found here just as deep underground, completely white and of a different shape:more rounded, and others sharply oblong with twisting or twisted circles of a light gray color, as can be seen from some I have kept. They are called feathers. These feathers are found on the French coast and elsewhere in the East and West Indies, but not here or on the shores of our seas.
There are also small shells, somewhat similar to the shells of St. Jacob, but more crooked and with a convex ribbed hump, whitish in color. All of them are no longer found here, but are common in the East and West Indies.
One can only guess how these sea creatures and elephants got so deep underground, during the Flood or during another flood, upheaval of the earth or the growth of its layers. It should be noted that if these animals drowned, they probably would have gone to the bottom and then would not have sailed that far."
“It is surprising that one trustworthy gentleman, the former commander-in-chief of the Netherlands West India Company in Guinea, told me that not far from Delim there is a rather high mountain, consisting almost exclusively of sea shells, only covered with a thin layer of earth, as it were a cap …
And what is unusual: inside it are found iron and copper tools, decayed and destroyed, as well as fragments of pots and glazed clay vessels, which are now not found in these parts.
Residents say that this mountain has been like this since time immemorial, for many centuries, and that they have no idea how sea shells formed such a mountain in the depths of the country and how buried clay shards, iron and copper weapons could have appeared in it.
I have also been reliably informed that in Munsterland (West Germany), fossilized fish are sometimes found underground.
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In Maastricht and in Tongeren (South Holland) there are buildings where you can see stones that look like sea shells, obviously, these stones from earth mixed with shells are brought in by the sea, for these are natural stones, not bricks.
This is especially evident in the oldest buildings, built several hundred years ago.
In the region of Bern (Switzerland), in 1542, in the ore, at a depth of 100 fathoms, they found a ship with an iron anchor, with a canvas sail, completely in mud; it contained 40 more human skeletons.
In 1550, the skeletons of marine animals were found in the river de Ruijpel near Willebroek, in Brabant (South Holland).
At the very learned Mr. Smetius, a renowned pastor in Nimwegen, I saw several slingshots and sea shells dug out of the ground on Mount Peters, outside the city of Maastricht and outside the city of Aken."
“In the chronicle of the city of Couvorden, compiled by Mr. Picard, we find the following:
“In 1650, in July, I was shown at Couvorden a 12-span elephant tusk, found in the ground and in the sand between Couvorden and Hardenberg. Inside, it is still intact and dense, but blackish. This can serve as proof that he lay for many hundreds of years in the earth, hundreds of years before they learned about the existence of elephant teeth or before they were brought from distant countries. I also know that around 1615 or 1616, not far from Burgsteinforth, in deep marl, that is, lime clay, a real unicorn was found. Most of it ended up in Munster, but the rest, sawn into pieces, was distributed to various people.
From this one could conclude that in very ancient times, before these countries were inhabited, such animals were found in these desert, endlessly dense and dark forests. This was before Noah's Flood. As I know, in many places, very deep from the earth and clay, large and small antlers were dug. This proves that the stormy waves covered these animals with earth and sand and covered them, like other creatures that could easily decay. This applies to animals that live on land.
But as for some of the remains of sea monsters, thrown out during the flood on land, there are enough of them everywhere.
I saw here, in Couvorden, buried in deep ditches, the real teeth of sea monsters. " An excerpt from Picard's book ends here."
“In Holland, especially in Amsterdam, there are many heavy trees deep underground, even in places where the soil is so soft that no trees could grow there now.
From Roermont I was informed that in Peel there were swamps and wastelands, and there, in the vicinity, when they were digging, they found many fallen trees under the ground. Some think that these trees were felled while St. Willibrut (according to Veldinaar's chronicles) was in Rome, around 695, for then (in his own words) there was such a strong storm from the northeast that in In Holland, almost all the large trees that grew in this wild forest were mercilessly uprooted in one night. Others say that the fall of trees in these countries took place in 860, three years before the conversion of the country into a county, when there was a terrible storm and the Rhine river near Katwijk stopped. Others establish that it was in 1170, when all the dams broke and the water stood at the gates of Utrecht.
The wind is believed to have come from the northwest, because all the trees lie southeast at a depth of several feet. They became hard, almost like iron.
As a special feature, it should be noted that near the cities of Weesp and Muiden, underground, at a depth of about 50 feet, there is a large number of scattered bricks, so dense that when the piles are driven in with a ram, the masts can hardly break through. How and when these bricks got so deep underground into the peaty and swampy soil, where stones do not grow, [only] Almighty God knows.
Not far from Harderwijk, in the sea, they found a cobblestone road and many felled trees that lie to the southeast.
When stranded in the Südersee, there is a forest and trees at the bottom, and very large stones not far from there.
On the banks of the Zaan River, as well as in its channel, there are various sea shells and snails, from which it can be concluded that there was a sea there long ago or there was a general flood, or this sea entered the rivers near Petten and Verona, at the time when the river Zaan was still a branch of the Rhine, and near these places it emptied into the sea. Its mouth was around the 13th century. closed and partitioned off.
A prominent and trustworthy gentleman told me that he was an eyewitness when, near den Bosch, on the Meuse, large upper water and ice floes broke through a dam and washed it away, creating a whirlpool 62 feet deep. From this depth, they removed the right thigh bone of an elephant, the antlers and the hoof of an elk, lying together, of which the first are kept in Leiden in the anatomical theater. These things are probably many thousands of years old.
In Meyeri, near Bosch, in many places, at a depth of 30 feet underground, countless pine trees are found, felled to one side, now the peasants pull them up for the resin they contain, use them for lamps or candles."
“Near the village of Hillegom, in Holland, in a deep sand pit, a whale's rib and vertebrae, which I myself saw, were found, and in memory of this rare occasion they were paraded in front of an important house.
Experience has shown me that in Friesland, in some places, especially in northern Walden, at a depth of 5-6 feet under the peat, whole forests were found, including one in which whole areas were found where trees were burnt up to half human height, which is clear visible from charcoal and surrounding ash. There are many underground walnut and other trees in these parts, over which many feet of peat land. But by what accident this happened many centuries ago is unknown. We can only guess about this. I recall that in Suriname and other places in America, the same things are found. Let the scientists investigate all this in detail. This indicates that the surface of the earth has undergone many changes and upheavals."
“In England, in some places, especially in Lincolnshire, countless fallen trees of various species are found in the land of drained marshes. Large trees are most often toppled to the northeast, while smaller ones lie across them, some above and others below. There are oaks ranging in length from 20 to 35, or even 40 cubits, which are sold for a lot of money, the tree has turned black like ebony. It is suitable for the keels of ships, for which it is used. Many of these pine trees are now scarcely found on this island. They lie felled from the root, apparently cut down. Many of these underground trees were burned down, others were cut short, rectangular in shape, some were split with wedges, with stones inside. Walnut trees and spruce cones are also found there.
More recently, bolts were found there, like army hammers, and around them several Roman coins minted during Vespasian.
In England, boats were found deep underground, which the ancient British usually used, and human bones, amber, beads, a copper cauldron, etc. And near Modena in Italy, France and other countries, in many places trees and various other things that were used by a person. As for the first mentioned swamp, it is believed that there were forests on this place in antiquity, when the Roman Empire ruled in England, and that they were cut down, fell down by their [Romans] orders, so that they could not serve as a refuge; and that while these trees remained there, and blocked the entrances, the water rose up and the surrounding high lands brought so much sand and earth there that the trees were underground, and the water, because the passages were blocked, remained standing. When the water was later diverted through canals, the land became usable again."
“In 1688, his eminence boyar Fyodor Alekseevich Golovin, governor in Siberia and chief military commissar of His Imperial Majesty Peter Alekseevich, traveled through Siberia to the east and passed down the Irtysh River, to the place where it flows into the large Ob river, to the place, called Samara, or Samarovsky Yam. A little higher than this place, the river has a very strong current and, as often happens in rocky rivers, large pieces of land break off and fall, washed out by the force of the current, changing the course. It happened that a similar large piece of rocky earth fell from the mountain onto the low bank of the river.
Then they found that the skeleton of a long-dead man had fallen with the ground in a wooden coffin.
There were also silver items, bracelets, a silver necklace, which were worn by the ancient pagans, and a silver cup, which was left to me by his High Nobility, the above-named gentleman, when he was here [in Holland] the Great Ambassador of Muscovy in 1698. More on this here.
Unusual weather phenomena in the paintings of Dutch artists:
Ice Mountain, nailed to the dam on January 24, 1789.
Now in the Netherlands, winter temperatures rarely drop below -5. And snow in winter is a rare occurrence.
Ice invasion, 1799
1799 year.
Author: i_mar_a