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GIANTS AND PIOMIES. 



Here the remains of the several families are mixed up in 

 •wonderful confusion. 



'.,■• Victims, tyrants, small and great, ' 



4 . .^ . Partake the same repose, 



And tliere in peace the fossils mix 



Of those who once were foes. 



6. Prof. Sedgwick, of Cainbiidgc, nametl a G'ological 

 Formation Nvith which his name is asso>!iatcd, ('amhiian I'rom 

 Cumbria or Cambria in Wales. To the lower part of this 

 Formation, the rocks of our Gold Fiohls belong (with the 

 excepion of the Granites) as fiio determined by Dr. Selvvyn* 

 The Primordial or Para'loxidas sepulchres of Newfoundhmd 

 and New Brunswick belong to the upper part. Sir Roderick 

 Murcbison's name is familiar as the author of " Siluria " and 

 the "Silurian System," so named by him after the "Silnres" 

 the ancient inhal)itants of Wales. The rocks of Mira, Mooso 

 River, Wentworth, 1. C, R., Barney's liiver, Sutherland's 

 River, East River and Arisaig, to which attention has been 

 directed in preceding No 's belong to tlie " Silurian Systen." 



Tlie name of Hugh Miller the Cromarty mason and his 

 " Old Red Sandstone " ar<i household words. Few of the 

 readers of the Preshi/tenan Witness are unfamiliar with the 

 name. Those who have read the " Old Red Sandstuue" arc 

 familiar with the names and appearance of the tishes : 1. 

 Cotrosteus. 2. Pterichtli i/s. 3. Cepliidaapu. 4. OJiiroh'pis. 

 5. Holnpttjchm^, (Jr., and the Crii-tacean Seraphim. The 

 readers of his "Footprints of the Creator" are acipiainted 

 with the Fish, Aden/lepis (of Stromness). Many of the lishes 

 are almost " Pigmaean,'' some are of moderate size, others are 

 large, gigantic, all arc singular in appearance, arnl clad in 

 coats of mail. 



Our niuseum has scales of Holnpti/diiiis like, '* oyster- 

 shells," once mistaken for such, from Dura den in Scotland 



* We consider the granites to be of " Archaean Ages." No. 8. While we regard 

 the Argillites and Quirtzite^ of the Uold Fields as being of Lower Can<briivn age, the 

 Gold and its associ-ito minerals, Arscnopyritc, &c., may be of Upper Caiiil)rian or 

 Lower Silurian ajjos, having been introduceJ subsequently while the rocka were 

 bring iw-tcdinorphoscd, and previous to the Lower Carboniferous Period. Vld. Trans. 

 Institute of Natural Science 1830-7. 



