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Horton Bluff, and two kintls of fnot-prints on clny plate, fonnc? 

 by myself in the same locality, ami next p large fllal) with foot- 

 prints crossing and' re-crosainj? from the (jtiarry of the late 

 "E. N. JJ. McLolan ir> the car1)oniforons sandstone of Great* 

 Iliver, soiUh ot the Londonderry Iron MineSi 



Visiting Cape Bpeton, reptilian foot-prints are seen at the 

 Sydney Coal Mines. 



At the Schooner Pond wo * * a Carbon if eroits giant 

 whose name ia Ilajilophh'Jnuht. '' ^•. 'c was exhibited at; 

 L'Exposition Universelfe de Pai iti67. Tliis astonished' 

 geologists as much as did that of the other Cape Breton giant,. 

 (Mijracatitlin» ma[inijicm. Its specific name was harnesii, so 

 named after his di.scoverer^ Mr. Barnes, M. E. Since then ho 

 has received another specific name, Lonrjijii">nia — lon>(j winried. 

 What he is known by is a long irim; having some resemblance 

 to the wing of a Dnigon-fly ; this is 3 inches in length. It 

 ia extended on a piece of slat^e — on a part of it lies a- 

 fossil fern. Tlie whole insect must have measured across the 

 wings G or 7 inches. This was certainly a giant among insects. 

 If it were as voracious as the dragon-fly, it must hare inspirec^ 

 terror among his puny neighbours. This was not the first ofc 

 this cl'ass of insects, if Geologists are correct in assigning » 

 Devonian age to certain rocks associated with the Archaeaiv 

 and Primordial rocks of St. John, N. B.,. which cotitain plants, 

 and were formerly regarded as Carboniferous. These rocks are 

 found to contain, in like manner, wings of insectc of much 

 Mualler dimensions, Htiploplilehimn hamesii, or Longipennis,. 

 Scudder is in the Pirovincift-l Museum. 





19L ^6 seem to have been alV>gebher forge tfid of our 

 neighbour Island — Prince Edward's. Not so,, fbr until now it? 

 has failed to put in an appearance. Prince EdWard Island' 

 formation is post-Carboiiiferous, if we except its basal rocks^ 

 which may be Carboniferous or Permian — the age subsequent 

 to the Carboniferous. Vide Table; 



The chief formation of the Island is Triaseic. Now that it 

 has appeared, it comes to the front with a notable giant as its- 

 representative. Its uaine is Bathygnathus, so called on account 



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