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Meinungen Anderer in einer davon abweichenden Zusam- 

 menstellung und in einem verkehrten Lichte vorträgt Von 

 solch einer Kombination gibt S. 193 ein Beispiel, wo der 

 Autor sagt: 



M. De Wycli, in endeavouring to estimate the force of 

 the diluvial current of the Loicer Rheinland, has referred the 

 rounding of some of the hüls of the Basin of Neuwied to the 

 last cxtraordinary flood, which he conceives to have surmoun- 

 ted the highest volcanic summits , and to have swept over the 

 basin of Neuwied in a direction of west to east. Hence the 

 ivesterly rounding of the Plaidter Humrichs, the Veitshopf 

 the Kottenheimer Bilden and other hüls. He adds thai the 

 Corretzbcrg (by wich, 1 suspect, he means the Krufter Hum- 

 rich of other writers) is towards the northwest torn asunder 

 and fallen in; floods of water having carried most of it away, 

 so as even to render its volcanic form doubtful; — and 

 that around the foot of this kill lava blochs He wildly disper- 

 sed, ?ione of them being in the place where their consolidation 

 ftrst took place. 



J am by no means convinced of the accuracy of these ob- 

 servations. Although many volcanic hüls must have doubtless 

 undergone some alteration in their form from diluvial currents, 

 it is by no means to the extent ascribed; nor is it accurately 

 slated that the direction of the torrent was from west to east, 

 or that all the volcanic hüls shew that in this direction they 

 had yielded to the force of the diluvium. If, for instance, 

 the flood has produced any remarhable effect lipon such an 

 cxpcscd volcanic hill as the Hochsimmer , which is doubtful, 

 it is not shewn on its ivesterly but on its southerly flank; 

 and. in the case of the Weinberg of Nichenich, the breach 

 of the volcanic hill is not on the west , but un the north-east 

 Great, therefore, as must have been the force of the diluvial 

 torrent, such slalements as these are evidently incorrect. 



Wenn ich meine Übersicht von Anfange bis zum Ende 

 durchgehe , finde ich nirdendswo , dass ich versucht habe, 

 die Kraft der Diluvial - Strömung abzuschätzen. Man ver- 



