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but a crude development by an uncultured stone-cutter 

 out of his remembrance of things in modern sculpture; 

 and that the inscription was purely the creation of Mr. 

 McWhorter s imagination. 



In his acknowledgment, my correspondent said that I 

 had left no doubt in his mind as to the fact that the giant 

 was a swindle ; but that he had communicated my letter 

 to the eminent Dr. Schlottmann, that the latter avowed 

 that I had not convinced him, and that he still believed 

 the Cardiff figure to be a Phenician statue bearing a most 

 important inscription. 



One man emerged from this chapter in the history of 

 human folly supremely happy: this was Hull, the in 

 ventor of the &quot; giant.&quot; He had at last made some money, 

 had gained a reputation for &quot; smartness, &quot; and, what 

 probably pleased him best of all, had revenged himself 

 upon the Rev. Mr. Turk of Ackley, Iowa, who by lung- 

 power had worsted him in the argument as to the giants 

 mentioned in Scripture. 



So elate was he that he shortly set about devising 

 another &quot;petrified man&quot; which would defy the world. 

 It was of clay baked in a furnace, contained human 

 bones, and was provided with a tail and legs of the ape 

 type&quot;; and this he caused to be buried and discovered 

 in Colorado. This time he claimed to have the aid of 

 one of his former foes the great Barnum; and all went 

 well until his old enemy, Professor Marsh of Yale, ap 

 peared and blasted the whole enterprise by a few minutes 

 of scientific observation and common-sense discourse. 



Others tried to imitate Hull, and in 1876 one William 

 Euddock of Thornton, St. Clair County, Michigan manu 

 factured a small effigy in cement, and in due time brought 

 about the discovery of it. But, though several country 

 clergymen used it to strengthen their arguments as to the 

 literal, prosaic correctness of Genesis, it proved a failure. 

 Finally, in 1889, twenty years after &quot;the Cardiff Giant&quot; 

 was devised, a &quot;petrified man&quot; was found near Bathurst 

 in Australia, brought to Sydney, and exhibited. The re- 



