B GIANTS AND PlO^lftft. 



existed. The Miia species wo know of are pigmies, their 

 names are Atjnndiis and Olc.nus (alniu>). The two are 

 nssoiiialed in Mira as in Wales and Norway. Either when 

 tJoad or living the Mira pigmies seem to have met witli a 

 disaster before burial. They are in fragments. They are so 

 abundant ns to form thin limestones. They must have swarmed 

 in Mira waters, in the approximate beginning of life. Another 

 name that has been given to this OlrmiS is spharaplit/iafinus 

 ulatm. Besides being alatus (winged) it is splier ophthalmm 

 (round eyed). With the aid of a magnifying glass we can 

 see those round and compound eyes among the fragments, aa 

 ■well as the so-called wings. 



In sunshine these little eyes are bright and brilliant like 

 the eyes of a dragon fly. They toil us that the waters in 

 which they lived were pellucid, and that the sun shone at Mira 

 then, as I have seen it sliine, when it rose above the waters of 

 the Atlantic, while I was sitting at Louisbourg Point. 



2. Nearly 25 years ago when 1 made my dalmt in Halifax 

 as a lecturer on Geology, and had the Ivlitor of the Preshi/- 

 terian Witness as one of my hearers, 1 di^scribed the trilobites 

 of Arisaig, N. S , with their brilliant eyes, now for the first 

 time exposed to the light of the sun, which they had beheld ages 

 ago. At the close of my lecture Mr. Mackay of Tilt Cove 

 Copper Mine, Newfoundland, exhibited three "Giant" trilobites 

 from Placentiit Bay. TIk'sc were Giants compared with the 

 Arisaig trilobites, while the latter are much larger than the 

 trilobites of Mira describc<l in No. 1. One of the Newfound- 

 hmd trilobites in our Museum measures 10x7 inches. This is 

 about fifty times the size of the Cape Breton pigmies. These 

 uro known as Ptiradoxides — /.ara'Ioxns signifiss wonderful. 

 They are of "Primordial age." Barrande, the great French 

 Palaeontologist, so characterized the age of the Paradoxides 

 of Bohemia. In Wales where the same oleniis is found, 

 Paradoxides also occurs in the " Lower lingula flags." This 

 shows that the Paradoxides lived before olenus. The New- 

 foundland giant trilobites are to be regarded as older than the 

 pigmies of Mira. They lived^ died and were buried before 



