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262 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Sth being taken solely to represent the exact line in which that
of Queen Victoria was taken from the other side of the rock.
Fig. IV or the 4th exposure represents a point at right angles to
the line in which the 1st and Sth exposures were taken and hence
the point in the rock at which both profiles are formed.
No artificial graving or carving has been done to produce the
outlines. They are purely natural products. I examined the
rock very carefully for signs of human interference, and there
are none and never have been any. The arrangement of surface
and outline was done solely by weather and accident. The
chances that 5o clear a profile as. that· of Washington should not
happen in this way are almost infinite and yet it occurred. The
phenomenon very well simulates teleological forms in sculpture,
tho it is crude enough in expression. There are defects which
would notoccur in a product of art, but the points and lines are
there for profiles which have at least a superficial similarity to
artificial products and this illustrates the extremes in which the
law of chance may operate.
I give two cuts of photographs taken by others, namely,
Figs. VI and VII to illustrate what my own may not bring out
so clearly.
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