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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
131
For
three
other
instances,
see
the
Scientific
American,
47-194;
52-83;
68-325.
As
to
wedge-shape
larger
than
could
very
well
be
called
an
"ax":
Nature,
30-300:
That,
May
27,
1884,
at
Tysnas,
Norway,
a
meteorite
had
fallen:
that
the
turf
was
torn
up
at
the
spot
where
the
object
had
been
supposed
to
have
fallen;
that
two
days
later
"a
very
peculiar
stone"
was
found
near
by.
The
description
is--"in
shape
and
size
very
like
the
fourth
part
of
a
large
Stilton
cheese."
It
is
our
acceptance
that
many
objects
and
different
substances
have
been
brought
down
by
atmospheric
disturbance
from
what--only
as
a
matter
of
convenience
now,
and
until
we
have
more
data--we
call
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea;
however,
our
chief
interest
is
in
objects
that
have
been
shaped
by
means
similar
to
human
handicraft.
Description
of
the
"thunderstones"
of
Burma
(Proc.
Asiatic
Soc.
of
Bengal,
1869-183):
said
to
be
of
a
kind
of
stone
unlike
any
other
found
in
Burma;
called
"thunderbolts"
by
the
natives.
I
think
there's
a
good
deal
of
meaning
in
such
expressions
as
"unlike
any
other
found
in
Burma"--but
that
if
they
had
said
anything
more
definite,
there
would
have
been
unpleasant
consequences
to
writers
in
the
19th
century.
More
about
the
"thunderstones"
of
Burma,
in
the
Proc.
Soc.
Antiq.
of
London,
2-3-97.
One
of
them,
described
as
an
"adze,"
was
exhibited
by
Captain
Duff,
who
wrote
that
there
was
no
stone
like
it
in
its
neighborhood.
Of
course
it
may
not
be
very
convincing
to
say
that
because
a
stone
is
unlike
neighboring
stones
it
had
foreign
origin--also
we
fear
it
is
a
kind
of
plagiarism:
we
got
it
from
the
geologists,
who
demonstrate
by
this
reasoning
the
foreign
origin
of
erratics.
We
fear
we're
a
little
gross
and
scientific
at
times.
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