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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
the
Illustrated
London
News,
the
occurrence
is
given
a
great
deal
of
space.
In
the
issue
of
Feb.
24,
1855,
a
sketch
is
given
of
the
prints.
I
call
them
cones
in
incomplete
basins.
Except
that
they're
a
little
longish,
they
look
like
prints
of
hoofs
of
horses--or,
rather,
of
colts.
But
they're
in
a
single
line.
It
is
said
that
the
marks
from
which
the
sketch
was
made
were
8
inches
apart,
and
that
this
spacing
was
regular
and
invariable
"in
every
parish."
Also
other
towns
besides
those
named
in
the
Times
are
mentioned.
The
writer,
who
had
spent
a
winter
in
Canada,
and
was
familiar
with
tracks
in
snow,
says
that
he
had
never
seen
"a
more
clearly
defined
track."
Also
he
brings
out
the
point
that
was
so
persistently
disregarded
by
Prof.
Owen
and
the
other
correlators--that
"no
known
animal
walks
in
a
line
of
single
footsteps,
not
even
man."
With
these
wider
inclusions,
this
writer
concludes
with
us
that
the
marks
were
not
footprints.
It
may
be
that
his
following
observation
hits
upon
the
crux
of
the
whole
occurrence:
That
whatever
it
may
have
been
that
had
made
the
marks,
it
had
removed,
rather
than
pressed,
the
snow.
According
to
his
observations
the
snow
looked
"as
if
branded
with
a
hot
iron."
Illustrated
London
News,
March
3,
1855-214:
Prof.
Owen,
to
whom
a
friend
had
sent
drawings
of
the
prints,
writes
that
there
were
claw-marks.
He
says
that
the
"track"
was
made
by
"a"
badger.
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