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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
56
Trans.
Ent.
Soc.
of
London,
1871-proc.
xxii:
That
the
phenomenon
has
been
investigated
by
the
Rev.
L.
Jenyns,
of
Bath.
His
description
is
of
minute
worms
in
filmy
envelopes.
He
tries
to
account
for
their
segregation.
The
mystery
of
it
is:
What
could
have
brought
so
many
of
them
together?
Many
other
falls
we
shall
have
record
of,
and
in
most
of
them
segregation
is
the
great
mystery.
A
whirlwind
seems
anything
but
a
segregative
force.
Segregation
of
things
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky
has
been
avoided
as
most
deep-dyed
of
the
damned.
Mr.
Jenyns
conceives
of
a
large
pool,
in
which
were
many
of
these
spherical
masses:
of
the
pool
drying
up
and
concentrating
all
in
a
small
area;
of
a
whirlwind
then
scooping
all
up
together--
But
several
days
later,
more
of
these
objects
fell
in
the
same
place.
That
such
marksmanship
is
not
attributable
to
whirlwinds
seems
to
me
to
be
what
we
think
we
mean
by
common
sense:
It
may
not
look
like
common
sense
to
say
that
these
things
had
been
stationary
over
the
town
of
Bath,
several
days--
The
seven
black
rains
of
Slains;
The
four
red
rains
of
Siena.
An
interesting
sidelight
on
the
mechanics
of
orthodoxy
is
that
Mr.
Jenyns
dutifully
records
the
second
fall,
but
ignores
it
in
his
explanation.
R.P.
Greg,
one
of
the
most
notable
of
cataloguers
of
meteoritic
phenomena,
records
(Phil.
Mag.:
4-8-463)
falls
of
viscid
substance
in
the
years
1652,
1686,
1718,
1796,
1811,
1819,
1844.
He
gives
earlier
dates,
but
I
practice
exclusions,
myself.
In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1860-63,
Greg
records
a
meteor
that
seemed
to
pass
near
the
ground,
between
Barsdorf
and
Freiburg,
Germany:
the
next
day
a
jelly-like
mass
was
found
in
the
snow--
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