Following is a list of the greatest floods of which modern history makes mention:

684 a.d. Japan; 780 sq. m. of Isle of Shikoku covered by sea.

968. Persian Gulf; many cities destroyed, and new islands formed by irruption of sea.

1098 or 1100. East of Kent inundated; Goodwin Sands formed.

1161 or 1165. Sicily; irruption of sea; thousands drowned.

1173. Holland; Zuider Zee much enlarged.

1219. Nordland, Norway; lake burst; 36,000 people perished.

1228. Friesland; invasion of sea; 100.000 people drowned.

1396. Holland; islands of Texel, Vlieland, and Wieringen separated from mainland, and Marsdiep, the channel between Texel and North Holland, formed.

1421 or 1446. Holland; 72 villages inundated, of which 20 permanently; about 100,000 persons drowned. Biebosch formed east of Dordrecht, and this town separated from mainland.

1521. Holland; 100,000 lives by an inundation.

1570. Holland; storm drove in the sea, destroying numerous villages and 20,000 people in Friesland.

1617. Catalonia, Spain; 15,000 perished in floods.

1642. China, at Kaifong; 300,000 drowned.

1646. Holland and Friesland inundated; loss of life 110,000.

1745. Peru; Callao destroyed by irruption of sea caused by earthquakes.

1767. England; irruption of sea on east coast.

1782. Formosa; west side of island submerged, and Taiwan destroyed.

1787-88. India, in Northwestern Provinces and Punjab; 15,000 lives lost by floods.

1791. Cuba; floods from excessive rain; 3,000 drowned.

1811. Hungary; 24 villages swept away by overflow of Danube.

1813. Austria, Hungary, Poland and Prussian Silesia; floods caused by rains; 4,000 perished in Poland, 6,000 in Silesia.

1824. St. Petersburg and Cronstadt, 10,000 lives lost from overflow of Neva.

1825. Denmark; sea broke through from North Sea to Limfjord, making northern Jutland an island; one-third of Friesland submerged by rising of sea and rivers. 1851. Northern China; Yellow River burst its banks, and made a new outlet into Gulf of Pechili. 1856. South of France; floods did damage to extent of $35,600,000. 1888. Peru; Arica and Iquique nearly destroyed by earthquake waves. 1874. United States; Mill River valley (Massachusetts) inundated by bursting of a dam; 144 drowned. Also floods in western Pennsylvania; 220 drowned,

1876. China; floods in northern provinces; in Bengal 200,000 persons perished from inundation of a tidal wave. 18S3. Java and Sumatra; west coast of former and east coast of latter submerged by volcanic wave, new islands formed in Sunda Straits, whilst part of Krakatoa disappeared. 1887. China; floods in Ho-nan, caused by the Hoang-ho bursting its southern bank; millions of lives lost. 1889. Johnstown (Pennsylvania), United States; 10,000 lives lost from bursting of a reservoir