In this case it is black night. A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth. No sun, no moon, no stars, can be seen. Darkness is on the face of the deep. Day has ceased to be.
Men stumble against each other.
All this we shall find depicted in the legends. The overloaded atmosphere begins to discharge itself. The great work of restoring the waters of the ocean to the ocean begins. Donnelly goes on to describe a post-cataclysmic era of rain and snow, followed by tremendous floods.