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rate feathers being clearly distinguishable ; that &quot;the 

 left side of the head is inexpressibly noble and majestic, &quot; 

 and &quot;conforms remarkably to the type of the head of 

 the mound-builders &quot;; that &quot;the left arm terminates in 

 what appears to be a huge extended lion s paw&quot;; that 

 &quot;the dual idea expressed in the head is carried out in 

 the figure&quot;; that &quot;in the wonderfully artistic mouth of 

 the divine side we find a suggestion of that of the Greek 

 Apollo.&quot; Mr. McWhorter also found other things that 

 no other human being was ever able to discern, and 

 among them &quot;a crescent-shaped wound upon the left 

 side,&quot; &quot;traces of ancient coloring&quot; in all parts of the 

 statue, and evidences that the minute pores were made 

 by &quot;borers.&quot; He lays great stress on an &quot;ancient 

 medal&quot; found in Onondaga, which he thinks belongs &quot;to 

 the era of the mound-builders,&quot; and on which he finds 

 a &quot;circle inclosing an equilateral cross, both cross and 

 circle, like the wheel of Ezekiel, being full of small circles 

 or eyes.&quot; As a matter of fact, this &quot;ancient medal&quot; was 

 an English penny, which a street gamin of Syracuse said 

 that he had found near the statue, and the &quot;equilateral 

 cross&quot; was simply the usual cross of St. George. Mr. 

 McWhorter thinks the circle inclosing the cross denotes 

 the &quot;world soul,&quot; and in a dissertation of about twenty 

 pages he discourses upon &quot;Baal,&quot; &quot;Tammuz,&quot; &quot;King 

 Hiram of Tyre,&quot; the &quot;ships of Tarshish,&quot; the &quot;Eluli,&quot; 

 and &quot;Atlas,&quot; with plentiful arguments drawn from a 

 multitude of authorities, and among them Sanchoniathon, 

 Ezekiel, Plato, Dr. Dollinger, Isaiah, Melanchthon, Le- 

 normant, Humboldt, Sir John Lubbock, and Don Do 

 mingo Juarros, finally satisfying himself that the statue 

 was &quot;brought over by a colony of Phenicians,&quot; possibly 

 several hundred years before Christ. 1 



With the modesty of a true scholar he says, &quot;Whether 

 the final battle at Onondaga . . . occurred before or 

 after this event we cannot tell ; but, resuming confidence, 

 he says, &quot;we only know that at some distant period the 



1 See the &quot;Galaxy&quot; article, as above, passim. 



