Messrs. Truair & Smith, Publishers of the Syracuse Journal:
GENTLEMEN:--I have just received your favor of the 25th instant,
in relation to the "Stone Wonder," visited by us. There can be
but one opinion about it, I think.

It is a statue, cut in gypsum, and intended to represent a human
form of colossal size in a recumbent posture. As to its source
or origin, I cannot conjecture. It is worn and dissolved by water
to a degree that indicates long inhumation, and it is covered by
an alluvial deposit of three feet or more in depth. The sculpture
is of a high order and very different from those of Central America.
I enclose you a few paragraphs* which I wrote in reference to a
statement that I had not been permitted to examine the object in
question. I do not see that we can say more at present.
I am respectfully, your ob't servant, JAMES HALL.

*The same letter communicated to the Albany Argus of October 25th,
under the signature "H." and printed on page--.



TO THE GIANT OF ONONDAGA.

Speak out, O Giant! stiff, and stark, and grim,
Open thy lips of stone, thy story tell;
And by the wondering crowd who pay thee court
In thy cold bed, and gaze with curious eyes
On thy prone form so huge, and still so human,
Let now again be heard, that voice which once
Through all old Onondaga's hills and vales