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But for many miles out from Paris there was little to be seen but inundation. The water was [[strikethrough]] certainly [[/strikethrough]] everywhere. One could not tell where it ought to be. On one side of the track which ran [[strikethrough]] away [[/strikethrough]] on a low embankment, little was visible but seas of fresh water over uninhabited country on the other, villiages up to their knees in the flood. All the yards, fields & gardens looked very strange with the tops of the shrubs & [[?]] showing where the paths must run.

Many of the houses seemed deserted. In others people were going in and out on planks and sawhorses, the average hight of the water was perhaps one foot, and all cellars