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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
part
that
seems
significant:
That
these
letters
had
been
hidden
under
a
layer
of
cement.
And
still,
in
our
own
heterogeneity,
or
unwillingness,
or
inability,
to
concentrate
upon
single
concepts,
we
shall--or
we
sha'n't--accept
that,
though
there
may
have
been
a
Lost
Colony
or
Lost
Expedition
from
Somewhere,
upon
this
earth,
and
extra-mundane
visitors
who
could
never
get
back,
there
have
been
other
extra-mundane
visitors,
who
have
gone
away
again--altogether
quite
in
analogy
with
the
Franklin
Expedition
and
Peary's
flittings
in
the
Arctic--
And
a
wreck
that
occurred
to
one
group
of
them--
And
the
loot
that
was
lost
overboard--
The
Chinese
seals
of
Ireland.
Not
the
things
with
the
big,
wistful
eyes
that
lie
on
ice,
and
that
are
taught
to
balance
objects
on
their
noses--but
inscribed
stamps,
with
which
to
make
impressions.
Proc.
Roy.
Irish
Acad.,
1-381:
A
paper
was
read
by
Mr.
J.
Huband
Smith,
descriptive
of
about
a
dozen
Chinese
seals
that
had
been
found
in
Ireland.
They
are
all
alike:
each
a
cube
with
an
animal
seated
upon
it.
"It
is
said
that
the
inscriptions
upon
them
are
of
a
very
ancient
class
of
Chinese
characters."
The
three
points
that
have
made
a
leper
and
an
outcast
of
this
datum--but
only
in
the
sense
of
disregard,
because
nowhere
that
I
know
of
is
it
questioned:
Agreement
among
archaeologists
that
there
were
no
relations,
in
the
remote
past,
between
China
and
Ireland:
That
no
other
objects,
from
ancient
China--virtually,
I
suppose--have
ever
been
found
in
Ireland:
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