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have then heen petrified and encased in niagnetyte (magnetic, 

 iron ore). With the culmination of this harmless race, 

 there appears another race of giants of a widely different 

 character f cephalopoda). The horse shoe crab of the 

 seas of Maine and other seas may he compared to the 

 former. The Giant Squid of Newfoundland ArrhiieutJiis 

 harveil ) is representative of the latter. That the comparison 

 is not unapt, I appeal first to testimony. Dana says in his 

 Text Book : In Trenton Period " shells of ccphalopods were 

 especially common under the form of a straight or curved horn 

 with transverse partitions." The straight ones were called 

 Orthoceras, a straight horn, — one kind had a shell 12 or 15 

 feet long and nearly 1 foot in diameter. In the Museum there 

 are two specimens of \uiusually large dimensions. The 

 cephalopod that could carry this complete shell must have been 

 of large and formidable proportions. The unhappy Asaphus 

 ditmarsice, tyrannus, or gi.ias in the clutch of the monster 

 and being torn to pieces by his hawk's bill, was certainly to 

 be pitied. 



4. Approximately contemporaneous with the Giant trilo- 

 bite of Moose Eiver Ave have* the Lingulce of Nova Scotia. 

 They are of larger size than the early Cape Bretoners, and of 

 greater variety and beauty. Now is evidently their period of 

 culr:)ination, as subsequently, we have only one or two species, 

 aiid these are of inferior si7c. They abounded at Arisaig on 

 Northumberland Strait in the Co. of Antigonish, at Wentworth, 

 Intercolonial Railway, in the Co. of Colchester and at Barney's 

 River and Sutheiland's River, Co. of Pictou. The sepulchres of 

 these inhabitants of early Silurian Seas are to be found in the 

 mountains and on the banks of the inland rivers as well as on 

 the sea border. It is cause of astonishment to many — the 

 rmdiiig of sea-sheiis inland and on the mountains. The 

 geologist considers their occurrence in these diversified positions 

 as a matter of course, and as convincing evidence that these 

 places of sepulture were portions of the bottom of the seas in 

 which the limjula or other marine inhabitants once lived. The 

 lingulce of Barney's River and Sutherland's River as well as 



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