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miles high. [p. 225] 17 The question: Our own acceptance, in conventional terms, is that there is not a bird of this earth that would not freeze to death at a height of more than four miles: that if condors fly three or four miles high, they are birds that are especially adapted to such altitudes. Sig. Ricco's estimate is that these objects or beings or cranes must have been at least five and a half The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort, [1919], at sacred-texts.com THE vast dark thing that looked like a poised crow of unholy dimensions. Assuming that | shall ever have any readers, let him, or both of them, if | shall ever have such popularity as that, note how dim that bold black datum is at the distance of only two chapters. Was it a thing or the shadow of a thing? Acceptance either way calls not for mere revision but revolution in the science of astronomy. But the dimness of the datum of only two chapters ago. The carved stone disk of Tarbes, and the rain that fell every afternoon for twenty--if | haven't forgotten, myself, whether it was twenty-three or twenty-five days!--upon one small area. We are all Thomsons, with brains that have smooth and slippery, though corrugated, surfaces--or that all intellection is associative--or that we remember that which correlates