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termrum imminere non crederet ? Quis videns, certe videre se putans, 
pavidos natnraliter cervos per angusta portarum usque ad fori ^lata pene- 
trantes, non imniinentem solitudinis sententiam formidaret?’ — (Alcirni 
Aviti Homilia de Rogationibus, ed. Sirmond., ii. 90.) ” 
The above article in the Quarterly Review was published in October, 1844. 
In 1858, also, Mr. Scrope “ brought out a new edition of his beautiful work, 
On the Geology and Extinct Volcanoes of Central France, in which he denied 
altogether the correctness of the division which Dr. Daubeny had proposed 
for the volcanoes of Auvergne into modern and ancient.” So we are informed 
by Dr. Daubeny himself in the Supplement to his History, before referred to, 
copies of which were distributed at the meeting of the British Association 
at Cambridge in 1862. In it Dr. Daubeny admits “ that the eruptions ichich 
he had designated as ancient are not divided, in point of time, from the so- 
called modern ones, by any great deluge or cataclysm which overspread the 
country ,” though he still maintains that there is, “ generally speaking, a 
marked difference in the volcanic products of Central France, in corre- 
spondence with their relative antiquity f — a somewhat vague qualification of 
the previous more definite admission ; and were it of much consequence for 
my present argument, I might show by more ample citations, that these quali- 
fications are based upon assumptions of antiquity merely, which again are 
based partly upon the old abandoned theory of igneous formations, and 
partly upon the appearances that are assumed to favour “ the distinction 
between lavas of submarine and subaerial origin.” But I make the following 
extract, as bearing on the present question, and also upon the now presumed 
great antiquity of man, since man’s contemporaneous existence with certain 
extinct animals has been discovered : — - 
“ I have omitted, in my account of the rocks of the Puy, all mention of 
those remarkable accumulations of scoriae which occur at Mont Denise, and 
at other places near the town of Puy, evidences of volcanic action ot the 
most recent epoch. . , C1 
“ It was underneath the scoriae which caps Mont Denise that Mr. ocrope 
mentions the occurrence of a volcanic breccia or peperino, which, though o great 
antiquity, as shown by being antecedent to the excavation oi the valley wnich 
it overlooks, has been found to contain human skeletons, associated with 
bones of the elephant, rhinoceros, cervus elephas, and other large mammalia. 
If this be fully substantiated, it would lead to the mference that man must 
have existed long before the volcanic eruptions of the country had reached 
their termination.” ( Suppl ., pp. 749, 750.) 
I must here notice the assumption of man’s great antiquity, in the above 
extract, depending upon the supposed “great antiquity” of the formation m 
which the remains were found ; and (as M. Prestwich said with reference to 
the flint implements found at Amiens) the evidence here also, may yet be 
found “ as much to necessitate the bringing forward the extinct animals 
towards our own time as the carrying back of man to the geological times.'’* 
* Vide Journ. of Trans, of Viet. Inst. , vol. i. p. 34. 
