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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
vast
majority
of
"thunderstones"
are
described
as
"axes,"
but
Meunier
(La
Nature,
1892-2-381)
tells
of
one
that
was
in
his
possession;
said
to
have
fallen
at
Ghardia,
Algeria,
contrasting
"profoundment"
(pear-shaped)
with
the
angular
outlines
of
ordinary
meteorites.
The
conventional
explanation
that
it
had
been
formed
as
a
drop
of
molten
matter
from
a
larger
body
seems
reasonable
to
me;
but
with
less
agreeableness
I
note
its
fall
in
a
thunderstorm,
the
datum
that
turns
the
orthodox
meteorologist
pale
with
rage,
or
induces
a
slight
elevation
of
his
eyebrows,
if
you
mention
it
to
him.
Meunier
tells
of
another
"thunderstone"
said
to
have
fallen
in
North
Africa.
Meunier,
too,
is
a
little
lamentable
here:
he
quotes
a
soldier
of
experience
that
such
objects
fall
most
frequently
in
the
deserts
of
Africa.
Rather
miscellaneous
now:
"Thunderstone"
said
to
have
fallen
in
London,
April,
1876:
weight
about
8
pounds:
no
particulars
as
to
shape
(Timb's
Year
Book,
1877-246).
"Thunderstone"
said
to
have
fallen
at
Cardiff,
Sept.
26,
1916
(London
Times,
Sept.
28,
1916).
According
to
Nature,
98-95,
it
was
coincidence;
only
a
lightning
flash
had
been
seen.
Stone
that
fell
in
a
storm,
near
St.
Albans,
England:
accepted
by
the
Museum
of
St.
Albans;
said,
at
the
British
Museum,
not
to
be
of
"true
meteoritic
material."
(Nature,
80-34.)
London
Times,
April
26,
1876:
That,
April
20,
1876,
near
Wolverhampton,
fell
a
mass
of
meteoritic
iron
during
a
heavy
fall
of
rain.
An
account
of
this
phenomenon
in
Nature,
14-272,
by
H.S.
Maskelyne,
who
accepts
it
as
authentic.
Also,
see
Nature,
13-531.
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