GIANTS AND FIOMIES. 



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refer to recent investigations in the " Geology of Palestine," 

 recorded in a memoir on the Physical Geology and Geography 

 of Arabia, Petraea, Palestine, and adjoining distiicts. By 

 Edward Hull, F. R. S,, (under the auspices of the Committee 

 of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1886). I arrange oV)serva- 

 tions in the form of a section which can readily bo compared 

 with my own of th»} " Suez Canal " and Bauerman's of Nos. 

 just referred to. My information is derived from a review of the 

 above memoir in Nature, April 29th, 1886. (I was too late in 

 receiving this at Halifax to give it with the others). Prof. 

 Hull gives the information as follows : 1. Archaean, Crys- 

 talline Rocks ; 2. Carboniferous ; 3. Cretaceous ; 4. Ter- 

 tiary (Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene) ; 5. Post Tertiary (post 

 pliocene). I would notice that the " break in succession " 

 of our " Suez Canal," section is here partially filled by 

 "Carboniferous." In Bauerman's section it was occupied 

 by " Triassic." Vid. No. 20 and Table. It is probable that 

 the two terms are applied to the same formation. 



54. Geologists, however, are of opinion that tlie American 

 Mastodon is of Post Glacial Age, that it was contemporary 

 with the American Mammoth, both being of pleistocene age 

 and of the Champlain Period. We have heretofore as a 

 matter of course, referred our Cape Breton giant to this Period. 

 On certain geologic il considerations we have been led to regard 

 him as contemporary with the Europeans. No. 44. The only 

 authentic remains that we have of these Capo Breton mastodons 

 are in our Provincial Museum. These are a femur (thigh bone) 

 and a molar tooth. The one was found about forty years ago 

 at Middle River, about nine miles from its mouth. It was 

 plowed up on the intervale of Walker's farm. Its discovery 

 caused considerable excitement. Admiral Dundonald and. Dr. 

 Gesner visited and explored the spot with the expectation of 

 making farther discoveries of remains of the giant — without 

 success. Fortunately the femur was deposited in the mus'ium 

 of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute, and is now a gem in our 

 Provincial Museum. Its dimensions are ; leuf^th, 3 feet 10 



