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The Devil and Tom Walker
- The country had been deluged with government bills; the famous Land Bank had been established; there had been a rage for speculating; the people had run mad with schemes for new settlements, for building cities in the wilderness; land-jobbers went about with maps of grants and townships and Eldorados, lying nobody knew where, but which everybody was ready to purchase.†
deluged = overwhelmed -- especially with water
Definition:
a large amount of something -- especially water
or:
to overwhelm with a large amount of something -- especially water
or:
to overwhelm with a large amount of something -- especially water