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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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That
Mr.
H.H.
Garland,
of
Nelson
County,
Virginia,
had
found
a
jelly-like
substance
of
about
the
circumference
of
a
twenty-five-cent
piece:
That,
according
to
a
communication
from
A.C.
Twining
to
Prof.
Olmstead,
a
woman
at
West
Point,
N.Y.,
had
seen
a
mass
the
size
of
a
teacup.
It
looked
like
boiled
starch:
That,
according
to
a
newspaper,
of
Newark,
N.J.,
a
mass
of
gelatinous
substance,
like
soft
soap,
had
been
found.
"It
possessed
little
elasticity,
and,
on
the
application
of
heat,
it
evaporated
as
readily
as
water."
It
seems
incredible
that
a
scientist
would
have
such
hardihood,
or
infidelity,
as
to
accept
that
these
things
had
fallen
from
the
sky:
nevertheless,
Prof.
Olmstead,
who
collected
these
lost
souls,
says:
"The
fact
that
the
supposed
deposits
were
so
uniformly
described
as
gelatinous
substance
forms
a
presumption
in
favor
of
the
supposition
that
they
had
the
origin
ascribed
to
them."
In
contemporaneous
scientific
publications
considerable
attention
was
given
to
Prof.
Olmstead's
series
of
papers
upon
this
subject
of
the
November
meteors.
You
will
not
find
one
mention
of
the
part
that
treats
of
gelatinous
matter.
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