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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1855-37,
it
is
said
that,
at
Poorhundur,
India,
Dec.
11,
1854,
flat
pieces
of
ice,
many
of
them
weighing
several
pounds--each,
I
suppose--had
fallen
from
the
sky.
They
are
described
as
"large
ice-flakes."
Vast
fields
of
ice
in
the
Super-Arctic
regions,
or
strata,
of
the
Super-Sargasso
Sea.
When
they
break
up,
their
fragments
are
flake-like.
In
our
acceptance,
there
are
aerial
ice-fields
that
are
remote
from
this
earth;
that
break
up,
fragments
grinding
against
one
another,
rolling
in
vapor
and
water,
of
different
constituency
in
different
regions,
forming
slowly
as
stratified
hailstones--but
that
there
are
ice-fields
near
this
earth,
that
break
up
into
just
such
flat
pieces
of
ice
as
cover
any
pond
or
river
when
ice
of
a
pond
or
river
is
broken,
and
are
sometimes
soon
precipitated
to
the
earth,
in
this
familiar
flat
formation.
Symons'
Met.
Mag.,
43-154:
A
correspondent
writes
that,
at
Braemar,
July
2,
1908,
when
the
sky
was
clear
overhead,
and
the
sun
shining,
flat
pieces
of
ice
fell--from
somewhere.
The
sun
was
shining,
but
something
was
going
on
somewhere:
thunder
was
heard.
Until
I
saw
the
reproduction
of
a
photograph
in
the
Scientific
American,
Feb.
21,
1914,
I
had
supposed
that
these
ice-fields
must
be,
say,
at
least
ten
or
twenty
miles
away
from
this
earth,
and
invisible,
to
terrestrial
observers,
except
as
the
blurs
that
have
so
often
been
reported
by
astronomers
and
meteorologists.
The
photograph
published
by
the
Scientific
American
is
of
an
aggregation
supposed
to
be
clouds,
presumably
not
very
high,
so
clearly
detailed
are
they.
The
writer
says
that
they
looked
to
him
like
"a
field
of
broken
ice."
Beneath
is
a
picture
of
a
conventional
field
of
ice,
floating
ordinarily
in
water.
The
resemblance
between
the
two
pictures
is
striking--nevertheless,
it
seems
to
me
incredible
that
the
first
of
the
photographs
could
be
of
an
aerial
ice-field,
or
that
gravitation
could
cease
to
act
at
only
a
mile
or
so
from
this
earth's
surface--
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