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NOTE. (See p. 159.) 
THE EXTINCT VOLCANOES OE AUVERGNE. 
Dr. Daubeny, and it would seem more recently by Sir Charles Lyeil Jnmseii, 
not only in his Antiquity of Man, but in his Elementary Geology, the latter 
Vino- cited by Dr. Colenso, in the Introduction to his work against the 
historic character of the Pentateuch, as his authority for “ referring especially 
to the circumstance, well known to all geologists, that volcanic hills exist of 
immense extent in Auvergne and Languedoc, which must have been formed 
ao-es before the Noachian deluge,” &c. Now, instead of this being the fact, 
1° find from the supplement to Dr. Daubeny’s Description of Volcanoes 
(p. 748), that Mr. Scrope has always disagreed with Dr. Daubeny as to the 
acres of these volcanic cones ; and it would appear from the article m the 
Quarterly Review I am now about to cite, that at one time Sir Charles Lyeil 
also differed from Dr. Daubeny on this subject ; so that, setting aside the 
historic evidence altogether— which, as will abundantly appear, has been too 
much ignored,— it is not a true representation of the facts of the case to allege, 
as Dr. Colenso has unfortunately ventured to do, that it is a circumstance 
well known to all geologists, that these cones must have been formed ages before 
the Noachian deluge ! . 
I shall now proceed to quote from the article in the Quarterly Review, 
which has the title “ The Conquest and the Conqueror,” and is otherwise 
well worthy of attentive perusal. ( Quar . Rev., vol. lxxiv., No. 148.) 
Referring to the probability that the fires of Vesuvius might have been 
“ quenched° before the sod of Italy had been trod by the sons of Japhet,” up 
to the time when they again burst forth in the days of Pliny ; and referring 
to the remarkable omission of all allusion by that precise writer to the 
destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii, the reviewer goes on 
has kindly forwarded to me copious extracts from the article in 
\u Review referred to by him ; and upon investigation I find that 
