Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE articles contained in this volume originated with a suggestion made by the Rev. Robert Murray, Editor of the " Presbyterian Witness." It was expected at first, that the series would be confined to subjects in Provincial Geology. As we proceeded our scope expanded and developed, from Local to General. It became worldwide and led to the consideration of subjects of general and deepest interest. Our series commenced in the " P. W."of December 25, 1885, continued weekly in 1886, and ended in February 19, 1887. They are therefore 61 in number. The author has been solicited to publish them in a volume. We are under great obligations to Mr. Murray for the interest he has taken in our articles, and the assistance given in the correction of the Press. Notes have been added and a Synoptical Table. chapter{Section 4GIANTS AND PIGMIES. 1. You seem to wish me to give your readers some account of certain giants that once lived in Cape Breton. Well, there have been giants in this Island, and pigmies too. I propose to tell you of both, setting the very great age of the latter over against the great size of the former. I shall give the latter the precedence. Those of which I shall write, lived, died, and were buried at Mira, near Louisbourg. Their remains which have come under my notice and occupy their place in our Provincial Museum, were collected by Mr. Hugh Fletcher, of the Geological Survey of Canada, and Rev. Mr. Sutherland of Gabarus. The rocks in which they are found are of the same age as the rocks which are found in Wales, called the " U-pper Lingula Flags " Salter. Prof. Hall, who has examined the collection, agrees with this view of age. Trans. 1886-7. The " Lower Lingula Flags," are the sepulchres of what are generally believed to be the oldest inhabitants of our world. T...