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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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That
the
government
meteorologist
had
investigated:
had
reported
that
a
tree
had
been
struck
by
lightning,
and
that
small
water-worn
pebbles
had
been
found
near
the
tree:
but
that
similar
pebbles
could
be
found
all
over
Jamaica.
Monthly
Weather
Review,
September,
1915-446:
Prof.
Fassig
gives
an
account
of
a
fall
of
hail
that
occurred
in
Maryland,
June
22,
1915:
hailstones
the
size
of
baseballs
"not
at
all
uncommon."
"An
interesting,
but
unconfirmed,
account
stated
that
small
pebbles
were
found
at
the
center
of
some
of
the
larger
hail
gathered
at
Annapolis.
The
young
man
who
related
the
story
offered
to
produce
the
pebbles,
but
has
not
done
so."
A
footnote:
"Since
writing
this,
the
author
states
that
he
has
received
some
of
the
pebbles."
When
a
young
man
"produces"
pebbles,
that's
as
convincing
as
anything
else
I've
ever
heard
of,
though
no
more
convincing
than,
if
having
told
of
ham
sandwiches
falling
from
the
sky,
he
should
"produce"
ham
sandwiches.
If
this
"reluctance"
be
admitted
by
us,
we
correlate
it
with
a
datum
reported
by
a
Weather
Bureau
observer,
signifying
that,
whether
the
pebbles
had
been
somewhere
aloft
a
long
time
or
not,
some
of
the
hailstones
that
fell
with
them,
had
been.
The
datum
is
that
some
of
these
hailstones
were
composed
of
from
twenty
to
twenty-five
layers
alternately
of
clear
ice
and
snow-ice.
In
orthodox
terms
I
argue
that
a
fair-sized
hailstone
falls
from
the
clouds
with
velocity
sufficient
to
warm
it
so
that
it
would
not
take
on
even
one
layer
of
ice.
To
put
on
twenty
layers
of
ice,
I
conceive
of
something
that
had
not
fallen
at
all,
but
had
rolled
somewhere,
at
a
leisurely
rate,
for
a
long
time.
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