THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Here is said to have once stood a large and populous town, the destruction of which was caused, not by a flood, but by an awful earthquake.  One day, all of a sudden, the earth was violently convulsed, the side of the hill opened, and swallowed up the whole town, with its inhabitants, and their belongings.  This was followed shortly after by a volume of water which quickly covered the site where the town had stood – as was the case with Sodom and Gomorrah.  The lake is said to be unfathomable, having no bottom to it.  Occasionally, however, the chimneys and tops of the houses are visible to those who are venturesome enough to embark on the surface of the waters of this mysterious lake.

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