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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Hail
and
ashes,
in
Ireland,
1755
(Sci.
Amer.,
5-168).
That,
at
Elizabeth,
N.J.,
June
9,
1874,
fell
hail
in
which
was
a
substance,
said,
by
Prof.
Leeds,
of
Stevens
Institute,
to
be
carbonate
of
soda
(Sci.
Amer.,
30-262).
We
are
getting
a
little
away
from
the
lines
of
our
composition,
but
it
will
be
an
important
point
later
that
so
many
extraordinary
falls
have
occurred
with
hail.
Or--if
they
were
of
substances
that
had
had
origin
upon
some
other
part
of
this
earth's
surface--had
the
hail,
too,
that
origin?
Our
acceptance
here
will
depend
upon
the
number
of
instances.
Reasonably
enough,
some
of
the
things
that
fall
to
this
earth
should
coincide
with
falls
of
hail.
As
to
vegetable
substances
in
quantities
so
great
as
to
suggest
lost
cargoes,
we
have
a
note
in
the
Intellectual
Observer,
3-468:
that,
upon
the
first
of
May,
1863,
a
rain
fell
at
Perpignan,
"bringing
down
with
it
a
red
substance,
which
proved
on
examination
to
be
a
red
meal
mixed
with
fine
sand."
At
various
points
along
the
Mediterranean,
this
substance
fell.
There
is,
in
Philosophical
Transactions,
16-281,
an
account
of
a
seeming
cereal,
said
to
have
fallen
in
Wiltshire,
in
1686--said
that
some
of
the
"wheat"
fell
"enclosed
in
hailstones"--but
the
writer
in
Transactions,
says
that
he
had
examined
the
grains,
and
that
they
were
nothing
but
seeds
of
ivy
berries
dislodged
from
holes
and
chinks
where
birds
had
hidden
them.
If
birds
still
hide
ivy
seeds,
and
if
winds
still
blow,
I
don't
see
why
the
phenomenon
has
not
repeated
in
more
than
two
hundred
years
since.
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