The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort-pages

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The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort-pages

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[p. 304] long time" hemorrhages-- The disk of quartz, said to have fallen from the sky, after a meteoric explosion: Said to have fallen at the plantation Bleijendal, Dutch Guiana: sent to the Museum of Leyden by M. van Sypesteyn, adjutant to the Governor of Dutch Guiana (Notes and Queries, 2-8-92). And the fragments that fall from super-geographic ice fields: flat pieces of ice with icicles on them. | think that we did not emphasize enough that, if these structures were not icicles, but crystalline protuberances, such crystalline formations indicate long suspension quite as notably as would icicles. In the Popular Science News, 24-34, it is said that in 1869, near Tiflis, fell large hailstones with long protuberances. "The most remarkable point in connection with the hailstones is the fact that, judging from our present knowledge, a very long time must have been occupied in their formation." According to the Geological Magazine, 7-27, this fall occurred May 27, 1869. The writer in the Geological Magazine says that of all theories that he had ever heard of, not one could give him light as to this occurrence--"these growing crystalline forms must have been suspended a Again and again this phenomenon: Fourteen days later, at about the same place, more of these hailstones fell. Rivers of blood that vein albuminous seas, or an egg-like composition in the incubation of which this earth is a local center of development--that there are super-arteries of blood in Genesistrine: that sunsets are consciousness of them: that they flush the skies with northern lights sometimes: super- embryonic reservoirs from which life-forms emanate-- Or that our whole solar system is a living thing: that showers of blood upon this earth are its internal