A Potrified Body Of a Man in a Marble Quarry.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 303, 25 May 1889, Page 3

A Potrified Body Of a Man in a Marble Quarry.

'The following telegram from Orange, ;Npw South Wales, to the. Sydney Tele ; a petrified human body in a marble quarry than- , appeared v >in ~a Recent cablegram:—A pbenofnenal discovery station and io miles which gives the plainest po»sißle lf pfbt>f# that the body of a man has been aetrified into a solid block of narble. The block was found by Mr...iSal.al. Mlis idwna andi Workfes he quarry, and is now in the possession of Pr... : SQpther, of Orange,. vho is.making,an,. examination with. a. new to arrive at,some (rational conolu ;ion. Vbe;figure.is th.e exact form of.a luman se.ipg,, stands„sft pin high and veighs betiyeem. ijcwp, and j6cwt. The lead exception ,thai< t shows unmistakable sigrfs of having been scalped previous to burial. : The trunk, including the sexual organs and I egs, is intact,; the ribs i and muscles bemg.plainly visible.;,The two. arms are missing, as are alsp .two.toes on one root and . one on. the, ; other,, but the remainder of the toes, with the toenails,, showt ks plainly as possible. 'The' < iscovery is now exciting the greatest c uriosity. It is reported that a female fprrn has also been found in the same l Ml