the "Mosaic Deluge," by Dr. Buckland and Mr. Lyell, in the
following terms:


Their respect for revealed religion has prevented them from
arraying themselves openly against the Scriptural account of it
--much less do they deny its truth--but they are in a great
hurry to escape from the consideration of it, and evidently
concur in the opinion of Linnaeus, that no proofs whatever of
the Deluge are to be discovered in the structure of the
earth (p. 1).


And after an attempt to reply to some of Lyell's arguments,
which it would be cruel to reproduce, the writer continues:--

When, therefore, upon such slender grounds, it is
determined, in answer to those who insist upon its universality,
that the Mosaic Deluge must be considered a preternatural event,
far beyond the reach of philosophical inquiry; not only as to
the causes employed to produce it, but as to the effects most
likely to result from it; that determination wears an aspect of
scepticism, which, however much soever it may be unintentional
in the mind of the writer, yet cannot but produce an evil
impression on those who are already predisposed to carp and
cavil at the evidences of Revelation (pp. 8-9).


The kindly and courteous writer of these curious passages is
evidently unwilling to make the geologists the victims of