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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Unseasonableness
for
either
spawn
or
nostoc.
Greg's
comment
in
this
instance
is:
"Curious
if
true."
But
he
records
without
modification
the
fall
of
a
meteorite
at
Gotha,
Germany,
Sept.
6,
1835,
"leaving
a
jelly-like
mass
on
the
ground."
We
are
told
that
this
substance
fell
only
three
feet
away
from
an
observer.
In
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
1855-94,
according
to
a
letter
from
Greg
to
Prof.
Baden-Powell,
at
night,
Oct.
8,
1844,
near
Coblenz,
a
German,
who
was
known
to
Greg,
and
another
person
saw
a
luminous
body
fall
close
to
them.
They
returned
next
morning
and
found
a
gelatinous
mass
of
grayish
color.
According
to
Chladni's
account
(Annals
of
Philosophy,
n.s.,
12-94)
a
viscous
mass
fell
with
a
luminous
meteorite
between
Siena
and
Rome,
May,
1652;
viscous
matter
found
after
the
fall
of
a
fire
ball,
in
Lusatia,
March,
1796;
fall
of
a
gelatinous
substance,
after
the
explosion
of
a
meteorite,
near
Heidelberg,
July,
1811.
In
the
Edinburgh
Philosophical
Journal,
1-234,
the
substance
that
fell
at
Lusatia
is
said
to
have
been
of
the
"color
and
odor
of
dried,
brown
varnish."
In
the
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-26-133,
it
is
said
that
gelatinous
matter
fell
with
a
globe
of
fire,
upon
the
island
of
Lethy,
India,
1718.
In
the
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-26-396,
in
many
observations
upon
the
meteors
of
November,
1833,
are
reports
of
falls
of
gelatinous
substance:
That,
according
to
newspaper
reports,
"lumps
of
jelly"
were
found
on
the
ground
at
Rahway,
N.J.
The
substance
was
whitish,
or
resembled
the
coagulated
white
of
an
egg:
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