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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
88
Reassurance
rises
again:
Prof.
Baden-Powell
says:
"It
contains
also
charcoal,
which
might
perhaps
be
acquired
from
matter
among
which
it
fell."
This
is
a
common
reflex
with
the
exclusionists:
that
substances
not
"truly
meteoritic"
did
not
fall
from
the
sky,
but
were
picked
up
by
"truly
meteoritic"
things,
of
course
only
on
their
surfaces,
by
impact
with
this
earth.
Rhythm
of
reassurances
and
their
declines:
According
to
Dr.
Smith,
this
substance
was
not
merely
coated
with
charcoal;
his
analysis
gives
43.59
per
cent
carbon.
Our
acceptance
that
coal
has
fallen
from
the
sky
will
be
via
data
of
resinous
substances
and
bituminous
substances,
which
merge
so
that
they
cannot
be
told
apart.
Resinous
substance
said
to
have
fallen
at
Kaba,
Hungary,
April
15,
1887
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1860-94).
A
resinous
substance
that
fell
after
a
fireball?
at
Neuhaus,
Bohemia,
Dec.
17,
1824
(Rept.
Brit.
Assoc.,
1860-70).
Fall,
July
28,
1885,
at
Luchon,
during
a
storm,
of
a
brownish
substance;
very
friable,
carbonaceous
matter;
when
burned
it
gave
out
a
resinous
odor
(Comptes
Rendus,
103-837).
Substance
that
fell,
Feb.
17,
18,
19,
1841,
at
Genoa,
Italy,
said
to
have
been
resinous;
said
by
Arago
(OEuvres,
12-469)
to
have
been
bituminous
matter
and
sand.
Fall--during
a
thunderstorm--July,
1681,
near
Cape
Cod,
upon
the
deck
of
an
English
vessel,
the
Albemarle,
of
"burning,
bituminous
matter"
(Edin.
New
Phil.
Jour.,
26-86);
a
fall,
at
Christiania,
Norway,
June
13,
1822,
of
bituminous
matter,
listed
by
Greg
as
doubtful;
fall
of
bituminous
matter,
in
Germany,
March
8,
1798,
listed
by
Greg.
Lockyer
(The
Meteoric
Hypothesis,
p.
24)
says
that
the
substance
that
fell
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
Oct.
13,
1838--about
five
cubic
feet
of
it:
substance
so
soft
that
it
was
cuttable
with
a
knife--"after
being
experimented
upon,
it
left
a
residue,
which
gave
out
a
very
bituminous
smell."
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