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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
83
Another
datum:
extraordinary
year
1883:
London
Times,
Dec.
25,
1883:
Translation
from
a
Turkish
newspaper;
a
substance
that
fell
at
Scutari,
Dec.
2,
1883;
described
as
an
unknown
substance,
in
particles--or
flakes?--like
snow.
"It
was
found
to
be
saltish
to
the
taste,
and
to
dissolve
readily
in
water."
Miscellaneous:
"Black,
capillary
matter"
that
fell,
Nov.
16,
1857,
at
Charleston,
S.C.
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
2-31-459).
Fall
of
small,
friable,
vesicular
masses,
from
size
of
a
pea
to
size
of
a
walnut,
at
Lobau,
Jan.
18,
1835
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1860-85).
Objects
that
fell
at
Peshawur,
India,
June,
1893,
during
a
storm:
substance
that
looked
like
crystallized
niter,
and
that
tasted
like
sugar
(Nature,
July
13,
1893).
I
suppose
sometimes
deep-sea
fishes
have
their
noses
bumped
by
cinders.
If
their
regions
be
subjacent
to
Cunard
or
White
Star
routes,
they're
especially
likely
to
be
bumped.
I
conceive
of
no
inquiry:
they're
deep-sea
fishes.
Or
the
slag
of
Slains.
That
it
was
a
furnace-product.
The
Rev.
James
Rust
seemed
to
feel
bumped.
He
tried
in
vain
to
arouse
inquiry.
As
to
a
report,
from
Chicago,
April
9,
1879,
that
slag
had
fallen
from
the
sky,
Prof.
E.S.
Bastian
(Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
3-18-78)
says
that
the
slag
"had
been
on
the
ground
in
the
first
place."
It
was
furnace-slag.
"A
chemical
examination
of
the
specimens
has
shown
that
they
possess
none
of
the
characteristics
of
true
meteorites."
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