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of wonderful footprin in the rock of the 

 prison-yard at Cars< , which, ac- 



cording to the pape ihowed that 



men existed at a mu od than the 



scientific supposed, but that they were men 

 of giant stature. 1 was cl. . rly demon- 

 strated by the footpri ;, for they were such as 

 might have been ma Je by huge moccasined 

 feet, and this was all that was necessary for 

 the conclusion that they were made by just 

 such feet. For it is a curious fact that the 

 majority of mankind seem to prefer any ex- 

 planation other than the most simple and nat- 

 ural, particularly in the case of fossils, and are 

 always looking for a primitive race of gigantic 

 men. 



Bones of the Mastodon and Mammoth have 

 again and again been eagerly accepted as those 

 of giants ; a salamander was brought forward 

 as evidence of the deluge (homo diluvii testis); 

 ammonites and their allies pose as fossil snakes, 

 and the "petrified man" flourishes perennially. 

 However, in this case the prints were recog- 

 nized by naturalists as having most probably 

 been made by some great ground sloth, such 



