Iho latter appeared in primeval waters. Thoy — the very first 

 of God's creatures — lived in the place now occujjied by the 

 Cambrian rocks of Placontia P»ay. At Saint John, New Hruns- 

 wiclc, similar giants have been disinterred by Mr. Matthew. 

 He reports the discovery of Puradoxides as larfje as Paradox- 

 ides davidis of St. David's, Wales. Our Colonial waters were 

 thus distinguished as a huhltat of theyir^;^ '* i/n'inordial" cveatuirs 

 that lived in Earth's great waters.* Among the primordials of 

 New lirunswiek we find a pigmy to which you have been 

 already introd\iced. Associated with the Mira olenus, we 

 observed af/nostuft, so called on account of its singular charac- 

 ter. The fjeniis apjjoars with Paradtjwides as well as olcnics. 

 It survives the former, but disappears with the latter. In the 

 " Silurian Period " the Paradoxides are not to be found. 

 They only belong to the Upper Cambrian Period of Geo- 

 iogicf'.i History. 



3. With the Lower Sihvrian Period, Nova Scotia comee 

 to tlie front. Another race of Gi;"nts appears in our waters. "" 

 The new giants are trilobites which we have referred to the • 

 gevus asa/dms (signifying obscure). The individual of which 

 ^ve have a characteristic fragment in our Museum, by whif^h we 

 are enabled to judge of character, and dimension has been named 

 Amphiis ditmarsine. Its specific name (Ditmars) is familiar at 

 Clementsport, Annapolis County. f The size of its caudal (tail) 

 shield is 6x6 inches. . This seems to indicate a trilobite much 

 iarger than the hirgeti paradoxides. In the Trenton lime- 

 stones of Ottawa giant trilobites are found in great numbers. 

 In this period they culminated. They still appear in the 

 subsequent Hudson Peiiod, and then become extinct. Our 

 giant(s) lived on tltc side of the Bay of Fumly, opposite the 

 tombs of the Saint John primordial race. He seems to have 

 met with a violent death before he was interred in the 

 leruginous clays or iron deposit of Moose River. His remains 



* Some will make exception in favour o( Eozoon, No. 17. 



t Prof. Hall is doubtful about this trilo^i^" being an Ataphus, we therefore 

 udd (?) 



