Note 129 — Chapter XXXIII
Reading edition
Geological Essays, 1799, p. 252, footnote.
[130] Richardson lived on the Antrim coast, and had daily opportunities of examining the admirable rock-sections there exposed. It was he who found the shells in supposed basalt, and led the geologists of his day astray on this subject. He made a clever but irrelevant reply to Playfair's plain statement of facts (Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. vol. ix. 1803, p. 481). His elaborate attack on "the Volcanic Theory" will be found in Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. vol. x. (1806), pp. 35-107. Though lively enough as a specimen of controversial writing, it forms, when seriously considered, rather a melancholy chapter in geological literature.
[131] Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, § 252.
[132] They are contained in the third volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society.
[133] "Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry and parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh," Mem. Geol. Survey, 1843.