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nected with the Saxicava sand. To this it is probable 

 that many of the travelled boulders of Laurentian rocks 

 belong, as they are found in this connection not only along 

 the whole south shore of the St. Lawrence, but even in 

 Prince Edward Island, and in Nova Scotia. It would be 

 important to distinguish in Anticosti this upper drift more 

 particularly from the lower boulder clay when this may 

 occur, and to observe any instances of glacial striation. 



With reference to the levels above the sea, it is to be ob- 

 served that along the shore of the St. Lawrence there is 

 usually a raised beach only a few feet above the level 

 of the sea, and on which shells and bones of whales fre- 

 quently occur, and a well-marked terrace, with beach 

 deposits and boulders, at a level of sixty or seventy feet 

 above the sea level, and this would appear to be the case also 

 in Anticosti. 



Some Prehistoric and Ancient Linear Measures. 1 



By r. P. Geeg. 



11. Pelasgic. — Dr. Schliemann, in his ■" Troja." p. 56, 

 speaking of the Acropolis of the second city at Hissarlik, 

 says : " These towers stood approximately at equal distances 

 of a little more than fifty metres (= 164 English feet) ; in 

 which measure we must certainly recognize the number of 

 100 ancient Trojan cubits, though the precise length of the 

 Trojan cubit is unknown to us [i.e., to Dr. Dbrpfeld and 

 himself] From the analogy of the oriental and Egyptian 

 cubit, it may, however, be fixed at a little more than 0*50 

 metres. I call particular attention to the fact that on this 

 computation the gate JRC and FM is exactly ten cubits 

 broad ; and the vestibulum of the edifice A precisely twenty 

 cubits both in length and breadth." 



Dorpfeld gives one of the old Assyrian cubits as 0"50 

 metres = 19*7 inches, and Petrie an Eastern Mediterranean 

 one as 19*96, so that either of these is here probably more 



1 Academy, Sept. 12, 1885. (Continued from the Canadian Record 

 of Science, i. 228.) 



