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after our arrival in London in 1862, we, without loss of tfmev 

 made our way to the upper galleries where the fossil mammals 

 and other organic remains were to be founds One of the prin- 

 cipal objects that arrested our attention, was the gigantic- 

 mjistodon — Mastodon ohioticn^ — the American Mastodon. 

 Owen figures this as a representative mastodon^ and the figure- 

 has been- copied in all geological text-lwoks (Darva, etc.,) which 

 treat of mastodon. In co<inection he remaHis : "The almost 

 complete skeleton of the mafetodon gignntcus (ohioticns) so 

 well known to the public as the " Missouri Leviathan," when- 

 exhibited, with a most grotesquely distorted and exaggerated' 

 ooUoca'ion ef the bones, in 184'2 and 1843- Jn the Egyptian^ 

 Hall, Piccadilly, but now mountiMl, in strict accordance with its' 

 natural proportions in the l)ritish Museum, has enubled me to* 

 present in- the subjoineil cut, as perfect a restoration of the- 

 mastodon as that of the mammoth (of St. Petersburgh), given- 

 at Dhe head of the preceding section." I regarded and exam- 

 ined this grant with much interest, as it reminded nre of home 

 and a race of giants that once lived in Cape Breton, of which- 

 a tooth in my collections were in the Exhibition at South 

 Kensington, and photographs of a thigh bone preserved in the 

 museum of the Mechanics Institute, Halifax. No. 1. 



We now return from our wanderings in P'oreign Countries.. 

 "Wo might have returned sooner if the requirements of Geology 

 only had been consulted, but "Giants and Pigmies " have kept 

 us abroad, and may again engage us in foreign travel. Prior 

 to our departure, we hud ascendbd geologically in Nova Scotia 

 to the top of the Triassic Formation and PHncc Edward Island' 

 Dinosaurian Period. See No. 13". Kncountering a " break in- 

 succession," Vid. Table. Geological sequence sent us ovot to- 

 England, France, Egypt, and" other foreign countries. We 

 completed the succession when we reached the Glacial Period; 

 No. 45. Tlien the geology of Nova Scotia- is of surpassing 

 interest, exceeding that of either England' or France. Vid. 

 Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural' Science^ 

 1879 to 1887. 



In connection with the geology of E^jnt, and certain illus* 

 trotive applications in Nos. 19>20,2l,.I would now briefly 



