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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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The
Editor
of
the
Review
says
that
he
sees
no
reason
for
doubting
that
these
masses
were
cobwebs.
La
Nature,
1883-342:
A
correspondent
writes
that
he
sends
a
sample
of
a
substance
said
to
have
fallen
at
Montussan
(Gironde),
Oct.
16,
1883.
According
to
a
witness,
quoted
by
the
correspondent,
a
thick
cloud,
accompanied
by
rain
and
a
violent
wind,
had
appeared.
This
cloud
was
composed
of
a
woolly
substance
in
lumps
the
size
of
a
fist,
which
fell
to
the
ground.
The
Editor
(Tissandier)
says
of
this
substance
that
it
was
white,
but
was
something
that
had
been
burned.
It
was
fibrous.
M.
Tissandier
astonishes
us
by
saying
that
he
cannot
identify
this
substance.
We
thought
that
anything
could
be
"identified"
as
anything.
He
can
say
only
that
the
cloud
in
question
must
have
been
an
extraordinary
conglomeration.
Annual
Register,
1832-447:
That,
March,
1832,
there
fell,
in
the
fields
of
Kourianof,
Russia,
a
combustible
yellowish
substance,
covering,
at
least
two
inches
thick,
an
area
of
600
or
700
square
feet.
It
was
resinous
and
yellowish:
so
one
inclines
to
the
conventional
explanation
that
it
was
pollen
from
pine
trees--but,
when
torn,
it
had
the
tenacity
of
cotton.
When
placed
in
water,
it
had
the
consistency
of
resin.
"This
resin
had
the
color
of
amber,
was
elastic,
like
India
rubber,
and
smelled
like
prepared
oil
mixed
with
wax."
So
in
general
our
notion
of
cargoes--and
our
notion
of
cargoes
of
food
supplies:
In
Philosophical
Transactions,
19-224,
is
an
extract
from
a
letter
by
Mr.
Robert
Vans,
of
Kilkenny,
Ireland,
dated
Nov.
15,
1695:
that
there
had
been
"of
late,"
in
the
counties
of
Limerick
and
Tipperary,
showers
of
a
sort
of
matter
like
butter
or
grease...
having
"a
very
stinking
smell."
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