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1642, Ralph Cudworth, A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lords Supper, page 66:
Solinus reports it of the Vulcanian Hill in Sicily, that they which offered Sacrifice upon it, never put fire to it, but expected it should be kindled from Heaven.
In his six lectures on Volcanos, exhausted the subject, and showed us the difference of the several systems, the Vulcanian, the Neptunian, and the Huttonian, which is the Plutonian, and his own opinion.
1870, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 939:
The Vulcanian or Plutonian theory, which ascribes the changes on earth's surface to the agency of fire.
Just as we have the ‘Plinian’ or ‘Vesuvian’ eruptions of Vesuvius accompanied by violent outbursts of ‘ashes’ and welling out of lava, and the incessant, milder ‘Strombolian’ type of eruption, so we may distinguish a ‘Vulcanian’ type.