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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Hailstones,
we
don't
care
so
much
about.
The
matter
of
stratification
seems
significant,
but
we
think
more
of
the
fall
of
lumps
of
ice
from
the
sky,
as
possible
data
of
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea:
Lumps
of
ice,
a
foot
in
circumference,
Derbyshire,
England,
May
12,
1811
(Annual
Register,
1811-54);
cuboidal
mass,
six
inches
in
diameter,
that
fell
at
Birmingham,
26
days
later
(Thomson,
Intro.
to
Meteorology,
p.
179);
size
of
pumpkins,
Bangalore,
India,
May
22,
1851
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1855-35);
masses
of
ice
of
a
pound
and
a
half
each,
New
Hampshire,
Aug.
13,
1851
(Lummis,
Meteorology,
p.
129);
masses
of
ice,
size
of
a
man's
head,
in
the
Delphos
tornado
(Ferrel,
Popular
Treatise,
p.
428);
large
as
a
man's
hand,
killing
thousands
of
sheep,
Texas,
May
3,
1877
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1877);
"pieces
of
ice
so
large
that
they
could
not
be
grasped
in
one
hand,"
in
a
tornado,
in
Colorado,
June
24,
1877
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
June,
1877);
lumps
of
ice
four
and
a
half
inches
long,
Richmond,
England,
Aug.
2,
1879
(Symons'
Met.
Mag.,
14-100);
mass
of
ice,
21
inches
in
circumference
that
fell
with
hail,
Iowa,
June,
1881
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
June,
1881);
"pieces
of
ice"
eight
inches
long,
and
an
inch
and
a
half
thick,
Davenport,
Iowa,
Aug.
30,
1882
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
Aug.,
1882);
lump
of
ice
size
of
a
brick;
weight
two
pounds,
Chicago,
July
12,
1883
(Monthly
Weather
Review,
July,
1883);
lumps
of
ice
that
weighed
one
pound
and
a
half
each,
India,
May
(?),
1888
(Nature,
37-42);
lump
of
ice
weighing
four
pounds,
Texas,
Dec.
6,
1893
(Sc.
Am.,
68-58);
lumps
of
ice
one
pound
in
weight,
Nov.
14,
1901,
in
a
tornado,
Victoria
(Meteorology
of
Australia,
p.
34).
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