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and hard-working ministers — Hon. P. Mitchell of the Marine and 

 Fisheries — who successfully carried through Parliament at its pre- 

 sent Session a grant of $37,000 for meteorology; and under the 

 chief directorship of G. T. Kingston, M. A., — head of Toronto 

 Observatory — whose guidance and extensive scientific attainments 

 are sufficient guarantees for our future successful progress. 



Art. XI. The History of a Boulder. By the Rev. D. 

 HONEYMAN, D. C. L., F. G. S., &c. 



(Read May 12, 1873.) 



Our Boulder lies partially interred on the side of the road, 

 between New Glasgow and Antigonish, about a mile and a half 

 east from Sutherland's River Bridge. It is nearly thirteen years 

 since this boulder first attracted my attention. Its hard weather- 

 beaten face was traversed by a dark brown line which led me to 

 suspect that it had a history to relate, which had yet been untold. 

 In shorter time than I have taken to pen these sentences, my ham- 

 mer and chisel had verified my conjecture. A familiar hieroglyphic 

 appeared which at once informed me that the boulder was not a 

 thing of yesterday, — that it had been clay deposited at the bottom 

 of the ocean, — that it had been deposited there in an age long gone. 



The hieroglyphic was the pygidium of a trilobite — Dalmania 

 Logani — which lived, died, and was buried at nearly the close of 

 the Upper Silurian Period, — which is known by English Geologists 

 as the Upper Ludlow, by American Geologists as the Lower 

 Ilelderberg, and by ourselves as the upper part or D, of the Upper 

 Arisaig Series. I observed that this boulder was not solitary; 

 many smaller ones were scattered on the sides of the road and in 

 the fields : all were alike weather-beaten. Many enclosed beauti- 

 ful forms — beautiful, but brittle. Trilobites, Phacops and PrcBtus 

 and Homalo7iotiis , of a new and undescribed species. There were 

 heads of Phacops having eyes in a beautiful state of preservation. 



All told the same story as the tail of the Dalmania Logani-^ 



