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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
366
Nature,
4-169:
That
the
fishes
had
fallen
among
the
fragments
of
the
meteorite.
Popular
Science
Review,
4-126:
That
one
day,
Mr.
Le
Gould,
an
Australian
scientist,
was
traveling
in
Queensland.
He
saw
a
tree
that
had
been
broken
off
close
to
the
ground.
Where
the
tree
had
been
broken
was
a
great
bruise.
Near
by
was
an
object
that
"resembled
a
ten-inch
shot."
A
good
many
pages
back
there
was
an
instance
of
over-shadowing,
I
think.
The
little
carved
stone
that
fell
at
Tarbes
is
my
own
choice
as
the
most
impressive
of
our
new
correlates.
It
was
coated
with
ice,
remember.
Suppose
we
should
sift
and
sift
and
discard
half
the
data
in
this
book--suppose
only
that
one
datum
should
survive.
To
call
attention
to
the
stone
of
Tarbes
would,
in
my
opinion,
be
doing
well
enough,
for
whatever
the
spirit
of
this
book
is
trying
to
do.
Nevertheless,
it
seems
to
me
that
a
datum
that
preceded
it
was
slightingly
treated.
The
disk
of
quartz,
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
after
a
meteoric
explosion:
Said
to
have
fallen
at
the
plantation
Bleijendal,
Dutch
Guiana:
sent
to
the
Museum
of
Leyden
by
M.
van
Sypesteyn,
adjutant
to
the
Governor
of
Dutch
Guiana
(Notes
and
Queries,
2-8-92).
And
the
fragments
that
fall
from
super-geographic
ice
fields:
flat
pieces
of
ice
with
icicles
on
them.
I
think
that
we
did
not
emphasize
enough
that,
if
these
structures
were
not
icicles,
but
crystalline
protuberances,
such
crystalline
formations
indicate
long
suspension
quite
as
notably
as
would
icicles.
In
the
Popular
Science
News,
24-34,
it
is
said
that
in
1869,
near
Tiflis,
fell
large
hailstones
with
long
protuberances.
"The
most
remarkable
point
in
connection
with
the
hailstones
is
the
fact
that,
judging
from
our
present
knowledge,
a
very
long
time
must
have
been
occupied
in
their
formation."
According
to
the
Geological
Magazine,
7-27,
this
fall
occurred
May
27,
1869.
The
writer
in
the
Geological
Magazine
says
that
of
all
theories
that
he
had
ever
heard
of,
not
one
could
give
him
light
as
to
this
occurrence--"these
growing
crystalline
forms
must
have
been
suspended
a
long
time"--
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