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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
the
London
Times,
Sept.
16,
1852,
appears
a
letter
from
Mr.
George
E.
Bailey,
a
chemist
of
Andover,
Hants.
He
says
that,
in
a
very
heavy
thunderstorm,
of
the
first
week
of
September,
1852,
this
iron
object,
had
fallen
in
the
garden
of
Mr.
Robert
Dowling,
of
Andover;
that
it
had
fallen
upon
a
path
"within
six
yards
of
the
house."
It
had
been
picked
up
"immediately"
after
the
storm
by
Mrs.
Dowling.
It
was
about
the
size
of
a
cricket
ball:
weight
four
pounds.
No
one
had
seen
it
fall.
In
the
Times,
Sept.
15,
1852,
there
is
an
account
of
this
thunderstorm,
which
was
of
unusual
violence.
There
are
some
other
data
relative
to
the
ball
of
quartz
of
Westmoreland.
They're
poor
things.
There's
so
little
to
them
that
they
look
like
ghosts
of
the
damned.
However,
ghosts,
when
multiplied,
take
on
what
is
called
substantiality--if
the
solidest
thing
conceivable,
in
quasi-existence,
is
only
concentrated
phantomosity.
It
is
not
only
that
there
have
been
other
reports
of
quartz
that
has
fallen
from
the
sky;
there
is
another
agreement.
The
round
quartz
object
of
Westmoreland,
if
broken
open
and
separated
from
its
loose
nucleus,
would
be
a
round,
hollow,
quartz
object.
My
pseudo-position
is
that
two
reports
of
similar
extraordinary
occurrences,
one
from
England
and
one
from
Canada--are
interesting.
Proc.
Canadian
Institute,
3-7-8:
That,
at
the
meeting
of
the
Institute,
of
Dec.
1,
1888,
one
of
the
members,
Mr.
J.A.
Livingstone,
exhibited
a
globular
quartz
body
which
he
asserted
had
fallen
from
the
sky.
It
had
been
split
open.
It
was
hollow.
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