The unsettled point of what it is, undoubtedly furnishes an additional
attraction regarding the mysterious stranger, as every person wishes
to see for himself and become judge in the trial of Statue versus
Fossil.

In this connection an interesting letter is subjoined from the Hon.
George Geddes.

To the Editor of the Syracuse Standard:--I find a notice in your
paper of this morning of the "Stone Giant" at Cardiff, in which
the fact that I visited it yesterday is stated, with the remark
that you are told that I believe it to be a petrifaction. Allow
me room in your paper to say that this is stating my views a little
stronger than I desire. I have formed no opinion as to the origin
of this wonderful thing. I was not allowed to make an examination
of it beyond the privilege of looking from over a railing into the
pit where the giant lay, and this pit was shaded by a tent, and
the railing surrounded by double and triple rows of people, all
anxious to see. I do not complain that I was not allowed a more
perfect examination; there were too many to see to allow the
descent into the pit of any one. All questions by me of the
gentlemen in charge were politely answered. My impressions were
decided that I saw before and below me the figure of a giant in
stone of some kind, but what kind I could not tell for in that
light and position it did not resemble any rock that our system
has in it. I thought it was quite unlike our limestone or our
gypsum formations; and that if it was sulphate of lime, and the
work of human hands, that it was more likely to have been built up,
than hewn from a solid rock. But as I have said, I had no means