summer flood at Medley

I heard that there was flooding there again, this month. Did you get to see?

Medley? - The world is in its dotage, and yet the cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. What a medley of opinions have they not broached upon the creation of the world? Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus, have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these words: Anarchon ara kai atelutaion to pan, which imply that all things have neither beginning nor end. Manetho also, who lived about the time of Nebuchadon-Asser, Asser being a Syriac word usually applied as a surname to the kings of that country, as Teglat Phael-Asser, Nabon-Asser - he, I say, formed a conjecture equally absurd - for as we usually say: ek to biblion kubernetes, which implies that books will never teach the world; so he attempted to investigate...

But, ask pardon, I am straying from the question.