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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
meteorite
of
Rutherford,
North
Carolina,
is
of
artificial
material:
mass
of
pig
iron.
It
is
said
to
be
fraudulent.
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
2-34-298.)
The
object
that
was
said
to
have
fallen
at
Marblehead,
Mass.,
in
1858,
is
described
in
the
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
2-34-135,
as
"a
furnace
product,
formed
in
smelting
copper
ores,
or
iron
ores
containing
copper."
It
is
said
to
be
fraudulent.
According
to
Ehrenberg,
the
substance
reported
by
Capt.
Callam
to
have
fallen
upon
his
vessel,
near
Java,
"offered
complete
resemblance
to
the
residue
resulting
from
combustion
of
a
steel
wire
in
a
flask
of
oxygen."
(Zurcher,
Meteors,
p.
239.)
Nature,
Nov.
21,
1878,
publishes
a
notice
that,
according
to
the
Yuma
Sentinel,
a
meteorite
that
"resembles
steel"
had
been
found
in
the
Mohave
Desert.
In
Nature,
Feb.
15,
1894,
we
read
that
one
of
the
meteorites
brought
to
the
United
States
by
Peary,
from
Greenland,
is
of
tempered
steel.
The
opinion
is
that
meteoric
iron
had
fallen
in
water
or
snow,
quickly
cooling
and
hardening.
This
does
not
apply
to
composition.
Nov.
5,
1898,
Nature
publishes
a
notice
of
a
paper
by
Prof.
Berwerth,
of
Vienna,
upon
"the
close
connection
between
meteoric
iron
and
steel-works'
steel."
At
the
meeting
of
Nov.
24,
1906,
of
the
Essex
Field
Club,
was
exhibited
a
piece
of
metal
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
Oct.
9,
1906,
at
Braintree.
According
to
the
Essex
Naturalist,
Dr.
Fletcher,
of
the
British
Museum,
had
declared
this
metal
to
be
smelted
iron--"so
that
the
mystery
of
its
reported
'fall'
remained
unexplained."
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