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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
225
London
Times,
Aug.
4,
1857.
That
a
block
of
ice,
described
as
"pure"
ice,
weighing
25
pounds,
had
been
found
in
the
meadow
of
Mr.
Warner,
of
Cricklewood.
There
had
been
a
storm
the
day
before.
As
in
some
of
our
other
instances,
no
one
had
seen
this
object
fall
from
the
sky.
It
was
found
after
the
storm:
that's
all
that
can
be
said
about
it.
Letter
from
Capt.
Blakiston,
communicated
by
Gen.
Sabine,
to
the
Royal
Society
(London
Roy.
Soc.
Proc.,
10-468):
That,
Jan.
14,
1860,
in
a
thunderstorm,
pieces
of
ice
had
fallen
upon
Capt.
Blakiston's
vessel--that
it
was
not
hail.
"It
was
not
hail,
but
irregular-shaped
pieces
of
solid
ice
of
different
dimensions,
up
to
the
size
of
half
a
brick."
According
to
the
Advertiser-Scotsman,
quoted
by
the
Edinburgh
New
Philosophical
Magazine,
47-371,
an
irregular-shaped
mass
of
ice
fell
at
Ord,
Scotland,
August,
1849,
after
"an
extraordinary
peal
of
thunder."
It
is
said
that
this
was
homogeneous
ice,
except
in
a
small
part,
which
looked
like
congealed
hailstones.
The
mass
was
about
20
feet
in
circumference.
The
story,
as
told
in
the
London
Times,
Aug.
14,
1849,
is
that,
upon
the
evening
of
the
13th
of
August,
1849,
after
a
loud
peal
of
thunder,
a
mass
of
ice
said
to
have
been
20
feet
in
circumference,
had
fallen
upon
the
estate
of
Mr.
Moffat,
of
Balvullich,
Ross-shire.
It
is
said
that
this
object
fell
alone,
or
without
hailstones.
Altogether,
though
it
is
not
so
strong
for
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea,
I
think
this
is
one
of
our
best
expressions
upon
external
origins.
That
large
blocks
of
ice
could
form
in
the
moisture
of
this
earth's
atmosphere
is
about
as
likely
as
that
blocks
of
stone
could
form
in
a
dust
whirl.
Of
course,
if
ice
or
water
comes
to
this
earth
from
external
sources,
we
think
of
at
least
minute
organisms
in
it,
and
on,
with
our
data,
to
frogs,
fishes;
on
to
anything
that's
thinkable,
coming
from
external
sources.
It's
of
great
importance
to
us
to
accept
that
large
lumps
of
ice
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
but
what
we
desire
most--perhaps
because
of
our
interest
in
its
archaeologic
and
palaeontologic
treasures--is
now
to
be
through
with
tentativeness
and
probation,
and
to
take
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea
into
full
acceptance
in
our
more
advanced
fold
of
the
chosen
of
this
twentieth
century.
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