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Yet with this caution before them, the erosion so shrewdly preserved by Hull convinced these eminent scientists. When such high scientific authority was deceived by Hull’s inventive genius, it is not strange that the great public of America and Europe insisted on believing it to be a “petrified giant.”

Dr. White in his history of the “Giant” above quoted says:

Dr. White continues:

When the evidence became too strong to be successfully combated, and Hull had disposed of his interest in his “invention” for $23,000, he became elated over the fame he had acquired, admitted that he was the originator of the “Petrified Giant” and enjoyed greatly the discomfiture of the scientists whom he had deceived. Finally