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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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The
wood
around
this
sandstone
pebble
was
black,
as
if
charred.
Dr.
Farrington,
for
instance,
in
his
books,
does
not
even
mention
sandstone.
However,
the
British
Association,
though
reluctant,
is
less
exclusive:
Report
of
1860,
p.
197:
substance
about
the
size
of
a
duck's
egg,
that
fell
at
Raphoe,
Ireland,
June
9,
1860--date
questioned.
It
is
not
definitely
said
that
this
substance
was
sandstone,
but
that
it
"resembled"
friable
sandstone.
Falls
of
salt
have
occurred
often.
They
have
been
avoided
by
scientific
writers,
because
of
the
dictum
that
only
water
and
not
substances
held
in
solution,
can
be
raised
by
evaporation.
However,
falls
of
salty
water
have
received
attention
from
Dalton
and
others,
and
have
been
attributed
to
whirlwinds
from
the
sea.
This
is
so
reasonably
contested--quasi-reasonably--as
to
places
not
far
from
the
sea--
But
the
fall
of
salt
that
occurred
high
in
the
mountains
of
Switzerland--
We
could
have
predicted
that
that
datum
could
be
found
somewhere.
Let
anything
be
explained
in
local
terms
of
the
coast
of
England--but
also
has
it
occurred
high
in
the
mountains
of
Switzerland.
Large
crystals
of
salt
fell--in
a
hailstorm--Aug.
20,
1870,
in
Switzerland.
The
orthodox
explanation
is
a
crime:
whoever
made
it,
should
have
had
his
finger-prints
taken.
We
are
told
(An.
Rec.
Sci.,
1872)
that
these
objects
of
salt
"came
over
the
Mediterranean
from
some
part
of
Africa."
Or
the
hypnosis
of
the
conventional--provided
it
be
glib.
One
reads
such
an
assertion,
and
provided
it
be
suave
and
brief
and
conventional,
one
seldom
questions--or
thinks
"very
strange"
and
then
forgets.
One
has
an
impression
from
geography
lessons:
Mediterranean
not
more
than
three
inches
wide,
on
the
map;
Switzerland
only
a
few
more
inches
away.
These
sizable
masses
of
salt
are
described
in
the
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
3-3-239,
as
"essentially
imperfect
cubic
crystals
of
common
salt."
As
to
occurrence
with
hail--that
can
in
one,
or
ten,
or
twenty,
instances
be
called
a
coincidence.
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