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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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I
find
that
I
have
another
note
upon
a
specific
hurricane:
Annals
and
Mag.
of
Nat.
Hist.,
1-3-185:
After
one
of
the
greatest
hurricanes
in
the
history
of
Ireland,
some
fish
were
found
"as
far
as
15
yards
from
the
edge
of
a
lake."
Have
another:
this
is
a
good
one
for
the
exclusionists:
Fall
of
fish
in
Paris:
said
that
a
neighboring
pond
had
been
blown
dry.
(Living
Age,
52-186.)
Date
not
given,
but
I
have
seen
it
recorded
somewhere
else.
The
best-known
fall
of
fishes
from
the
sky
is
that
which
occurred
at
Mountain
Ash,
in
the
Valley
of
Abedare,
Glamorganshire,
Feb.
11,
1859.
The
Editor
of
the
Zoologist,
2-677,
having
published
a
report
of
a
fall
of
fishes,
writes:
"I
am
continually
receiving
similar
accounts
of
frogs
and
fishes."
But,
in
all
the
volumes
of
the
Zoologist,
I
can
find
only
two
reports
of
such
falls.
There
is
nothing
to
conclude
other
than
that
hosts
of
data
have
been
lost
because
orthodoxy
does
not
look
favorably
upon
such
reports.
The
Monthly
Weather
Review
records
several
falls
of
fishes
in
the
United
States;
but
accounts
of
these
reported
occurrences
are
not
findable
in
other
American
publications.
Nevertheless,
the
treatment
by
the
Zoologist
of
the
fall
reported
from
Mountain
Ash
is
fair.
First
appears,
in
the
issue
of
1859-6493,
a
letter
from
the
Rev.
John
Griffith,
Vicar
of
Abedare,
asserting
that
the
fall
had
occurred,
chiefly
upon
the
property
of
Mr.
Nixon,
of
Mountain
Ash.
Upon
page
6540,
Dr.
Gray,
of
the
British
Museum,
bristling
with
exclusionism,
writes
that
some
of
these
fishes,
which
had
been
sent
to
him
alive,
were
"very
young
minnows."
He
says:
"On
reading
the
evidence,
it
seems
to
me
most
probably
only
a
practical
joke:
that
one
of
Mr.
Nixon's
employees
had
thrown
a
pailful
of
water
upon
another,
who
had
thought
fish
in
it
had
fallen
from
the
sky"--had
dipped
up
a
pailful
from
a
brook.
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