Caleb Jones

was fair as now and yielded a far more abundant produce.

He's describing ancient Greece.

And he goes, how shall I establish my words and what part of it can truly be called a remnant of the land that then was.

The whole country in Plato's day is only a long promontory extending far into the sea away from the rest of the continent while the surrounding basin of the sea is everywhere deep in the neighborhood of the shore.

Many great delusions have taken place during the 9,000 years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed since the time which I am speaking.

And during all this time and through so many changes, there has never been a considerable accumulation of the soil coming down from the mountains as in other places.

But the earth has fallen away and sunken out of sight.

And so he's talking about Athens, how the land around Athens has changed.

It's all different.

He says...

Today, in comparison to what then was, there's only remaining the bones of a wasted body, as they may be called.

And in the case of the small islands, all the richer and softer parts of the soil have been falling away.

Because Greece's are very rocky.

You know, there's rocks everywhere, mountains everywhere.

There's not much soil.

And he's saying in this ancient time, it was a fertile place of high, you know,

high elevated plains that you could grow large swaths of food on.

And there were so many more people in his day than now.

And so Athens used to be a much different place before the flood than it is now.

But there's still a connection that they have to this ancient pre-flood.