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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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As
to
other
falls,
or
another
fall,
it
is
said
in
the
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
1-28-361,
that,
April
11,
1832--about
a
month
after
the
fall
of
the
substance
of
Kourianof--fell
a
substance
that
was
wine-yellow,
transparent,
soft,
and
smelling
like
rancid
oil.
M.
Herman,
a
chemist
who
examined
it,
named
it
"sky
oil."
For
analysis
and
chemic
reactions,
see
the
Journal.
The
Edinburgh
New
Philosophical
Journal,
13-368,
mentions
an
"unctuous"
substance
that
fell
near
Rotterdam,
in
1832.
In
Comptes
Rendus,
13-215,
there
is
an
account
of
an
oily,
reddish
matter
that
fell
at
Genoa,
February,
1841.
Whatever
it
may
have
been--
Altogether,
most
of
our
difficulties
are
problems
that
we
should
leave
to
later
developers
of
super-geography,
I
think.
A
discoverer
of
America
should
leave
Long
Island
to
someone
else.
If
there
be,
plying
back
and
forth
from
Jupiter
and
Mars
and
Venus,
super-constructions
that
are
sometimes
wrecked,
we
think
of
fuel
as
well
as
cargoes.
Of
course
the
most
convincing
data
would
be
of
coal
falling
from
the
sky:
nevertheless,
one
does
suspect
that
oil-burning
engines
were
discovered
ages
ago
in
more
advanced
worlds--but,
as
I
say,
we
should
leave
something
to
our
disciples--so
we'll
not
especially
wonder
whether
these
butter-like
or
oily
substances
were
food
or
fuel.
So
we
merely
note
that
in
the
Scientific
American,
24-323,
is
an
account
of
hail
that
fell,
in
the
middle
of
April,
1871,
in
Mississippi,
in
which
was
a
substance
described
as
turpentine.
Something
that
tasted
like
orange
water,
in
hailstones,
about
the
first
of
June,
1842,
near
Nimes,
France;
identified
as
nitric
acid
(Jour.
de
Pharmacie,
1845-273).
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