ANOTHER STONE MAN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 111, 15 November 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER STONE MAN.

♦ On the ?ud of July, while some labourers were levelling a hillock or mound at Taughannock Falls, Ithaoa, on the shore Cayuga Lake, their picks struck something which seemed to he a large stone, but which on investigation proved to be a large stone man of large size imbedded in the earth at a depth of threo feet from the surface of tho mound. The lessee of tho laud, a Mr. Thompson, was at once notified of the diseovoy, and ho took immediate stops for its proper preservation. Tho World correspondent, accompanied by a well-know scientist of Ithaos, visited the sceno of the discovery. The fall of Taughaunook 215 feet high, or fifty feet higher than Niagara) is near the shore of Cayuga Lake, about eleven miles' drive from Ithaca by a beautiful avenue overlooking the lake for a long distance. Arrived at the full, we saw a small wall-tent erected, with the enterprising sign, " Admission i 10 cents," rudely painted above it. Pay-' ing the necessary dime, we were ushered without further ceremony into the presence of the stone giant, who reposed in tho excavation just as he was discovered no effort having yet been male for his removal. He is nearly seven feet long or high, and was apparently a muscular man, with tho muscles, joints and bones quite prominent, lie lies upon his back, with his head slightly raised, the right arm following the lino of the body, with the hand resting on tho right thigh, the left foot being somewhat deformed or claw-shaped, and resembling slightly a summer squash, as au honest country woman present remarked. The head indicates a low degree of intellect, the forehead slopes back, aud the crown is shaped like an ape's. The nose is flat and brood at the end like au African's, and the cheek-bones ore rather low than high. The joints knees, &0., are Very distinot, and the muscles and boues are indicated perfectly. The material of which the new found brother of tho Cardiff giant is composed is a soft,' porom> stone resembling saudstono mixed with a black substiinco (seen in spots) which is like black lead. When tho pick first struck thu petrifaction a small pioco of the left shoulder was broken off, and tho ragged edge of thu fracture resembles liuicstouo rather than sandstone