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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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About
1880.
Throttle
and
disregard.
But
the
coercion
could
not
be
positive,
and
many
of
the
excommunicated
continued
to
creep
in;
or,
even
to
this
day,
some
of
the
strangled
are
faintly
breathing.
Some
of
our
data
have
been
hard
to
find.
We
could
tell
stories
of
great
labor
and
fruitless
quests
that
would,
though
perhaps
imperceptibly,
stir
the
sympathy
of
a
Mr.
Symons.
But,
in
this
matter
of
concurrence
of
earthquakes
with
aerial
phenomena,
which
are
as
unassociable
with
earthquakes,
if
internally
caused,
as
falls
of
sand
on
convulsed
small
boys
full
of
sour
apples,
the
abundance
of
so-called
evidence
is
so
great
that
we
can
only
sketchily
go
over
the
data,
beginning
with
Robert
Mallet's
Catalogue
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1852),
omitting
some
extraordinary
instances,
because
they
occurred
before
the
eighteenth
century:
Earthquake
"preceded"
by
a
violent
tempest,
England,
Jan.
8,
1704--"preceded"
by
a
brilliant
meteor,
Switzerland,
Nov.
4,
1704--"luminous
cloud,
moving
at
high
velocity,
disappearing
behind
the
horizon,"
Florence,
Dec.
9,
1731--"thick
mists
in
the
air,
through
which
a
dim
light
was
seen:
several
weeks
before
the
shock,
globes
of
light
had
been
seen
in
the
air,"
Swabia,
May
22,
1732--rain
of
earth,
Carpentras,
France,
Oct.
18,
1737--a
black
cloud,
London,
March
19,
1750--violent
storm
and
a
strange
star
of
octagonal
shape,
Slavange,
Norway,
April
15,
1752--balls
of
fire
from
a
streak
in
the
sky,
Augermannland,
1752--numerous
meteorites,
Lisbon,
Oct.
15,
1755--"terrible
tempests"
over
and
over--"falls
of
hail"
and
"brilliant
meteors,"
instance
after
instance--"an
immense
globe,"
Switzerland,
Nov.
2,
1761--oblong,
sulphurous
cloud,
Germany,
April,
1767--extraordinary
mass
of
vapor,
Boulogne,
April,
1780--heavens
obscured
by
a
dark
mist,
Grenada,
Aug.
7,
1804--"strange,
howling
noises
in
the
air,
and
large
spots
obscuring
the
sun,"
Palermo,
Italy,
April
16,
1817--"luminous
meteor
moving
in
the
same
direction
as
the
shock,"
Naples,
Nov.
22,
1821--fire
ball
appearing
in
the
sky:
apparent
size
of
the
moon,
Thuringerwald,
Nov.
29,
1831.
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