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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
105
Ferrel
(A
Popular
Treatise,
p.
414)
tells
of
a
fall
of
living
fishes--some
of
them
having
been
placed
in
a
tank,
where
they
survived--that
occurred
in
India,
about
20
miles
south
of
Calcutta,
Sept.
20,
1839.
A
witness
of
this
fall
says:
"The
most
strange
thing
which
ever
struck
me
was
that
the
fish
did
not
fall
helter-skelter,
or
here
and
there,
but
they
fell
in
a
straight
line,
not
more
than
a
cubit
in
breadth."
See
Living
Age,
52-186.
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-32-199:
That,
according
to
testimony
taken
before
a
magistrate,
a
fall
occurred,
Feb.
19,
1830,
near
Feridpoor,
India,
of
many
fishes,
of
various
sizes--some
whole
and
fresh
and
others
"mutilated
and
putrefying."
Our
reflex
to
those
who
would
say
that,
in
the
climate
of
India,
it
would
not
take
long
for
fishes
to
putrefy,
is--that
high
in
the
air,
the
climate
of
India
is
not
torrid.
Another
peculiarity
of
this
fall
is
that
some
of
the
fishes
were
much
larger
than
others.
Or
to
those
who
hold
out
for
segregation
in
a
whirlwind,
or
that
objects,
say,
twice
as
heavy
as
others
would
be
separated
from
the
lighter,
we
point
out
that
some
of
these
fishes
were
twice
as
heavy
as
others.
In
the
Journal
of
the
Asiatic
Society
of
Bengal,
2-650,
depositions
of
witnesses
are
given:
"Some
of
the
fish
were
fresh,
but
others
were
rotten
and
without
heads."
"Among
the
number
which
I
got,
five
were
fresh
and
the
rest
stinking
and
headless."
They
remind
us
of
His
Grace's
observation
of
some
pages
back.
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