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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
the
London
Times,
March
2,
1859,
is
a
letter
from
Mr.
Aaron
Roberts,
curate
of
St.
Peter's,
Carmathon.
In
this
letter
the
fishes
are
said
to
have
been
about
four
inches
long,
but
there
is
some
question
of
species.
I
think,
myself,
that
they
were
minnows
and
sticklebacks.
Some
persons,
thinking
them
to
be
sea
fishes,
placed
them
in
salt
water,
according
to
Mr.
Roberts.
"The
effect
is
stated
to
have
been
almost
instantaneous
death."
"Some
were
placed
in
fresh
water.
These
seemed
to
thrive
well."
As
to
narrow
distribution,
we
are
told
that
the
fishes
fell
"in
and
about
the
premises
of
Mr.
Nixon."
"It
was
not
observed
at
the
time
that
any
fish
fell
in
any
other
part
of
the
neighborhood,
save
in
the
particular
spot
mentioned."
In
the
London
Times,
March
10,
1859,
Vicar
Griffith
writes
an
account:
"The
roofs
of
some
houses
were
covered
with
them."
In
this
letter
it
is
said
that
the
largest
fishes
were
five
inches
long,
and
that
these
did
not
survive
the
fall.
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1859-158:
"The
evidence
of
the
fall
of
fish
on
this
occasion
was
very
conclusive.
A
specimen
of
the
fish
was
exhibited
and
was
found
to
be
the
Gasterosteus
leirus."
Gasterosteus
is
the
stickleback.
Altogether
I
think
we
have
not
a
sense
of
total
perdition,
when
we're
damned
with
the
explanation
that
someone
soused
someone
else
with
a
pailful
of
water
in
which
were
thousands
of
fishes
four
or
five
inches
long,
some
of
which
covered
roofs
of
houses,
and
some
of
which
remained
ten
minutes
in
the
air.
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