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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
great
distances
at
which
these
seals
have
been
found
apart.
After
Mr.
Smith's
investigations--if
he
did
investigate,
or
do
more
than
record--many
more
Chinese
seals
were
found
in
Ireland,
and,
with
one
exception,
only
in
Ireland.
In
1852,
about
60
had
been
found.
Of
all
archaeologic
finds
in
Ireland,
"none
is
enveloped
in
greater
mystery."
(Chambers'
Journal,
16-364.)
According
to
the
writer
in
Chambers'
Journal,
one
of
these
seals
was
found
in
a
curiosity
shop
in
London.
When
questioned,
the
shopkeeper
said
that
it
had
come
from
Ireland.
In
this
instance,
if
you
don't
take
instinctively
to
our
expression,
there
is
no
orthodox
explanation
for
your
preference.
It
is
the
astonishing
scattering
of
them,
over
field
and
forest,
that
has
hushed
the
explainers.
In
the
Proceedings
of
the
Royal
Irish
Academy,
10-171,
Dr.
Frazer
says
that
they
"appear
to
have
been
sown
broadcast
over
the
country
in
some
strange
way
that
I
cannot
offer
solution
of."
The
struggle
for
expression
of
a
notion
that
did
not
belong
to
Dr.
Frazer's
era:
"The
invariable
story
of
their
find
is
what
we
might
expect
if
they
had
been
accidentally
dropped...."
Three
were
found
in
Tipperary;
six
in
Cork;
three
in
Down;
four
in
Waterford;
all
the
rest--one
or
two
to
a
county.
But
one
of
these
Chinese
seals
was
found
in
the
bed
of
the
River
Boyne,
near
Clonard,
Meath,
when
workmen
were
raising
gravel.
That
one,
at
least,
had
been
dropped
there.
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Astronomy.
And
a
watchman
looking
at
half
a
dozen
lanterns,
where
a
street's
been
torn
up.
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