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decisive on ivhat Mr. Desmarest labours to prove, to wit, 

 tliat it Avas once the seat of volcanic eruptions. 



Thirtj' pages afterwards, he resumes the topic; and, com- 

 plaining of the English irriters, for giving no account of 

 the form of the mountain, at the foot of wliich the Giant's 

 Causeway is placed, Mr. Desmarest kindly supplies their 

 deficiency, and tells us, it is wie cone tronquee. 



Now, as there is nothing in Mrs. Drury's vicAvs, which 

 can be tortured, by the warmest imagination, into a trun- 

 cated cone; nor, in tlie vicinity of the Giant's Causeway, 

 any feature of the slightest resemblance to it; and, as Mr. 

 Desmares-t himself admits, that none of the English writers 

 mention the shape of these mountainsj it becomes necessary 

 to ask, -where did he meet with this truncated cone, this 

 decided volcanic feature, that helps him to establish his 

 resemblance, between Antrim and Auvergne? 



Mr. Desmarest was not aware, that, even in his own time, 

 his intention, " to make stick observations in natwal history, as 

 " would very well enable him to give the lie to Moses," would 

 be in possession of tlie public; or he probably would have 

 been more cautious, how he exposed himself to a retort 

 from any of Moses's friends; 



Glib runs the tongue, with words unnumber'd fraught, 

 And gives you back as good as you have brought. 



But, 



