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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
181
W.S.
Forest,
Historical
Sketches
of
Norfolk,
Virginia:
That,
in
September,
1833,
when
some
workmen,
near
Norfolk,
were
boring
for
water,
a
coin
was
drawn
up
from
a
depth
of
about
30
feet.
It
was
about
the
size
of
an
English
shilling,
but
oval--an
oval
disk,
if
not
a
coin.
The
figures
upon
it
were
distinct,
and
represented
"a
warrior
or
hunter
and
other
characters,
apparently
of
Roman
origin."
The
means
of
exclusion
would
probably
be--men
digging
a
hole--no
one
else
looking:
one
of
them
drops
a
coin
into
the
hole--as
to
where
he
got
a
strange
coin,
remarkable
in
shape
even--that's
disregarded.
Up
comes
the
coin--expressions
of
astonishment
from
the
evil
one
who
had
dropped
it.
However,
the
antiquarians
have
missed
this
coin.
I
can
find
no
other
mention
of
it.
Another
coin.
Also
a
little
study
in
the
genesis
of
a
prophet.
In
the
American
Antiquarian,
16-313,
is
copied
a
story
by
a
correspondent
to
the
Detroit
News,
of
a
copper
coin
about
the
size
of
a
two-cent
piece,
said
to
have
been
found
in
a
Michigan
mound.
The
Editor
says
merely
that
he
does
not
endorse
the
find.
Upon
this
slender
basis,
he
buds
out,
in
the
next
number
of
the
Antiquarian:
"The
coin
turns
out,
as
we
predicted,
to
be
a
fraud."
You
can
imagine
the
scorn
of
Elijah,
or
any
of
the
old
more
nearly
real
prophets.
Or
all
things
are
tried
by
the
only
kind
of
jurisprudence
we
have
in
quasi-existence:
Presumed
to
be
innocent
until
convicted--but
they're
guilty.
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