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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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Or
they
were
not
fish
at
all.
I
incline,
myself,
to
the
acceptance
that
they
were
not
fish,
but
slender,
fish-shaped
objects
of
the
same
substance
as
that
which
fell
at
Amherst--it
is
said
that,
whatever
they
were,
they
could
not
be
eaten:
that
"in
the
pan,
they
turned
to
blood."
For
details
of
this
story
see
the
Journal
of
the
Asiatic
Society
of
Bengal,
1834-307.
May
16
or
17,
1834,
is
the
date
given
in
the
Journal.
In
the
American
Journal
of
Science,
1-25-362,
occurs
the
inevitable
damnation
of
the
Amherst
object:
Prof.
Edward
Hitchcock
went
to
live
in
Amherst.
He
says
that
years
later,
another
object,
like
the
one
said
to
have
fallen
in
1819,
had
been
found
at
"nearly
the
same
place."
Prof.
Hitchcock
was
invited
by
Prof.
Graves
to
examine
it.
Exactly
like
the
first
one.
Corresponded
in
size
and
color
and
consistency.
The
chemic
reactions
were
the
same.
Prof.
Hitchcock
recognized
it
in
a
moment.
It
was
a
gelatinous
fungus.
He
did
not
satisfy
himself
as
to
just
the
exact
species
it
belonged
to,
but
he
predicted
that
similar
fungi
might
spring
up
within
twenty-four
hours--
But,
before
evening,
two
others
sprang
up.
Or
we've
arrived
at
one
of
the
oldest
of
the
exclusionists'
conventions--or
nostoc.
We
shall
have
many
data
of
gelatinous
substance
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky:
almost
always
the
exclusionists
argue
that
it
was
only
nostoc,
an
Alga,
or,
in
some
respects,
a
fungous
growth.
The
rival
convention
is
"spawn
of
frogs
or
of
fishes."
These
two
conventions
have
made
a
strong
combination.
In
instances
where
testimony
was
not
convincing
that
gelatinous
matter
had
been
seen
to
fall,
it
was
said
that
the
gelatinous
substance
was
nostoc,
and
had
been
upon
the
ground
in
the
first
place:
when
the
testimony
was
too
good
that
it
had
fallen,
it
was
said
to
be
spawn
that
had
been
carried
from
one
place
to
another
in
a
whirlwind.
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