Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28
4 Communion 10 the Cardiff Giant.

The latest mark of appreciation Of the Cardiff
giant has been made By - Hiram Green, Esq +,
lAit Gustice of the Peece,'' of Whitehall, n.
Y, who forwarded by express to New York a
huge specimen of beet, shaped like diminu-
tive giant, which nov occupies a prominent
niche in Woods Museum, where it attracts as
much attention as the immortal and immoral
Cardiff " Statter.'
The following letter accompanied the veget-
able:
WHITEHALL. y. Y, Jan. 3, 1870
Mr. Wood Dear Sir-At last has mother
earth given up treasure, which in its peculiar
construction, is the ne Plus ultra Of archeao-
logy.
This great curiosity Of the nineteenth century
battles all efforts of the savaus to unravel the
great mystery which enshrouds It's wonderful
makeuptousness Men of the most acute scieu-
ti6c attainments, of this or any other age, have
examined this wonder Just exhumed from be
meath the encrustation Of terra frmG, and the
gree Agsssiz, Hall and others Of that ilk are
uns 'rving in their individual opinions that
Nevrll's farm production, Birnum's plaster fac
simiie, the great wooly horss, sea serpent-al,
all are prostrated in the outrageous formations,
superinducel by the suns rays FILLING obliquely
upon perpendicular object
The accompanying wonderful specimen of
ossi6ed vegetable. or geological homogeneous
matter was discovered beneath substrttum Of
blue clay. while excava;ing the soil for the pur-
pose of obtaining fish bait, by the late Collector
Of this port, W. Irving Smith, and presented by
him to Professor ". r. Hewitt, of this place.
The professor holding commission a. / for
generosity, considerably valves all pecuniary
emoluments, and donated the wonderful speci-
men of natures hand work to ne to be dis
sec;ed by the scalpel Of science, knowing full
well my capability Of welding the scalpe, in
my right extremity, and the bifurc4ted three
tined jobber in my left, at all Aldermanic ban
quets. But, sir, the cause of science in my
breast, preiominstes above the mere sensual
graudcation OF the hour, and, therefore, instead
Of sending this great :" What do you call it 80
to pot | send il to your Museum.
As wonder i, certainly outriyals " Ola
Gypsum - himself Some pronounce it gran
ite statue others, &" wise il their own conceit,
have no hesitation in saying - that T. once
lived and walked the earth - during the age
so beautifully discoursel upon by Wendell
Phillips in his great essay upon d" Lost Arts =
and still another class Of immoral thinkers
sert that this wonderful creation WAS one of the
original contractors on the City Hall in your
city, begun shortly after the Noah family came
forth from the ARK said building, owing to a
confusion OF tongues shortly after, was no, com
pleted, while the ali in and about the great
Babel fossihzei this ancient contractor harder
than boarding house biscuit. In conclusion,
my dear sir, making this presentation TO you
in behalf Of science, wi. express my private
judgment, feeling sure that after mature de-
liberation, you yourself viii arrive AZ Cardiff
inie reuces, that archaeological sayaus, IL
their classification Of won era, will accord this