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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
91
Dr.
Walter
Flight
(Eclectic
Magazine,
89-71)
says,
of
the
substance
that
fell
near
Alais,
France,
March
15,
1806,
that
it
"emits
a
faint
bituminous
substance"
when
heated,
according
to
the
observations
of
Bergelius
and
a
commission
appointed
by
the
French
Academy.
This
time
we
have
not
the
reluctances
expressed
in
such
words
as
"like"
and
"resembling."
We
are
told
that
this
substance
is
"an
earthy
kind
of
coal."
As
to
"minute
quantities"
we
are
told
that
the
substance
that
fell
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
has
in
it
a
little
more
than
a
quarter
of
organic
matter,
which,
in
alcohol,
gives
the
familiar
reaction
of
yellow,
resinous
matter.
Other
instances
given
by
Dr.
Flight
are:
Carbonaceous
matter
that
fell
in
1840,
in
Tennessee;
Cranbourne,
Australia,
1861;
Montauban,
France,
May
14,
1864
(twenty
masses,
some
of
them
as
large
as
a
human
head,
of
a
substance
that
"resembled
a
dull-colored
earthy
lignite");
Goalpara,
India,
about
1867
(about
8
per
cent
of
a
hydrocarbon);
at
Ornans,
France,
July
11,
1868;
substance
with
"an
organic,
combustible
ingredient,"
at
Hessle,
Sweden,
Jan.
1,
1860.
Knowledge,
4-134:
That,
according
to
M.
Daubree,
the
substance
that
had
fallen
in
the
Argentine
Republic,
"resembled
certain
kinds
of
lignite
and
boghead
coal."
In
Comptes
Rendus,
96-1764,
it
is
said
that
this
mass
fell,
June
30,
1880,
in
the
province
Entre
Rios,
Argentina:
that
it
is
"like"
brown
coal;
that
it
resembles
all
the
other
carbonaceous
masses
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky.
Something
that
fell
at
Grazac,
France,
Aug.
10,
1885:
when
burned,
it
gave
out
a
bituminous
odor
(Comptes
Rendus,
104-1771).
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