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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
73
Unless
we
can
accept
that,
in
regions
aloft,
there
are
vast
viscous
or
gelatinous
areas,
and
that
things
passing
through
become
daubed.
Or
perhaps
we
clear
up
the
confusion
in
the
descriptions
of
the
substance
that
fell
in
1841
and
1846,
in
Asia
Minor,
described
in
one
publication
as
gelatinous,
and
in
another
as
a
cereal--that
it
was
a
cereal
that
had
passed
through
a
gelatinous
region.
That
the
paper-like
substance
of
Memel
may
have
had
such
an
experience
may
be
indicated
in
that
Ehrenberg
found
in
it
gelatinous
matter,
which
he
called
"nostoc."
(Annals
and
Mag.
of
Nat.
Hist.,
1-3-185.)
Scientific
American,
45-337:
Fall
of
a
substance
described
as
"cobwebs,"
latter
part
of
October,
1881,
in
Milwaukee,
Wis.,
and
other
towns:
other
towns
mentioned
are
Green
Bay,
Vesburge,
Fort
Howard,
Sheboygan,
and
Ozaukee.
The
aeronautic
spiders
are
known
as
"gossamer"
spiders,
because
of
the
extreme
lightness
of
the
filaments
that
they
cast
out
to
the
wind.
Of
the
substance
that
fell
in
Wisconsin,
it
is
said:
"In
all
instances
the
webs
were
strong
in
texture
and
very
white."
The
Editor
says:
"Curiously
enough,
there
is
no
mention
in
any
of
the
reports
that
we
have
seen,
of
the
presence
of
spiders."
So
our
attempt
to
divorce
a
possible
external
product
from
its
terrestrial
merger:
then
our
joy
of
the
prospector
who
thinks
he's
found
something:
The
Monthly
Weather
Review,
26-566,
quotes
the
Montgomery
(Ala.)
Advertiser:
That,
upon
Nov.
21,
1898,
numerous
batches
of
spider-web-like
substance
fell
in
Montgomery,
in
strands
and
in
occasional
masses
several
inches
long
and
several
inches
broad.
According
to
the
writer,
it
was
not
spiders'
web,
but
something
like
asbestos;
also
that
it
was
phosphorescent.
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