finger spreading from the others, reaching to the pubes. The whole
statue evidently represents the position that a body would
naturally take at the departure of life.

There is perfect harmony in the different proportions of the
different parts of the statue. The features are strictly Caucasian,
having not the high bones of the Indian type, neither the outlines
of the Negro race, and being entirely unlike any statuary yet
discovered of Aztec or Indian origin. The chin is magnificent
and generous; the eyebrow, or supercilliary ridge, is well arched;
the mouth is pleasant; the brow and forehead are noble, and the
"Adam's apple" has a full development. The external genital
organs are large; but that which represents the integuments,
would lead us the conclusion that the artist did not wish to
represent the erectal tissues injected.

The statue, being colossal and massive, strikes the beholder with
a feeling of awe. Some portions of the features would remind one
of the bust of De Witt Clinton, and others of the Napoleonic type.
My opinion is that this piece of statuary was made to represent
some person of Caucasian origin, and designed by the artist to
perpetuate the memory of a great mind and noble deeds. It would
serve to impress inferior minds or races with the great and noble,
and for this purpose only was sculptured of colossal dimensions.
The block of gypsum is stratified, and a dark stratum passes just
below the outer portion of the left eyebrow, appears again on the
left breast, having been chiseled out between the eyebrow and chest,
and makes its appearance again in a portion of the hip. Some portions
of the strata are dissolved more than others by the action of the water,
leaving a bolder outcroping along the descent of the breast toward