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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
221
As
I
said
before,
this
expression
is
meaningless
as
to
a
few
instances;
it
is
reasonable
to
think
of
some
coincidence
between
the
fall
of
hail
and
the
fall
of
other
things:
but,
inasmuch
as
there
have
been
a
good
many
instances,--we
begin
to
suspect
that
this
is
not
so
much
a
book
we're
writing
as
a
sanitarium
for
overworked
coincidences.
If
not
conceivably
could
very
large
hailstones
and
lumps
of
ice
form
in
this
earth's
atmosphere,
and
so
then
had
to
come
from
external
regions,
then
other
things
in
or
accompanying
very
large
hailstones
and
lumps
of
ice
came
from
external
regions--which
worries
us
a
little:
we
may
be
instantly
translated
to
the
Positive
Absolute.
Cosmos,
13-120,
quotes
a
Virginia
newspaper,
that
fishes
said
to
have
been
catfishes,
a
foot
long,
some
of
them,
had
fallen,
in
1853,
at
Norfolk,
Virginia,
with
hail.
Vegetable
debris,
not
only
nuclear,
but
frozen
upon
the
surfaces
of
large
hailstones,
at
Toulouse,
France,
July
28,
1874.
(La
Science
Pour
Tous,
1874-270.)
Description
of
a
storm,
at
Pontiac,
Canada,
July
11,
1864,
in
which
it
is
said
that
it
was
not
hailstones
that
fell,
but
"pieces
of
ice,
from
half
an
inch
to
over
two
inches
in
diameter"
(Canadian
Naturalist,
2-1-308):
"But
the
most
extraordinary
thing
is
that
a
respectable
farmer,
of
undoubted
veracity,
says
he
picked
up
a
piece
of
hail,
or
ice,
in
the
center
of
which
was
a
small
green
frog."
Storm
at
Dubuque,
Iowa,
June
16,
1882,
in
which
fell
hailstones
and
pieces
of
ice
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
June,
1882):
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