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September, 1741. [p. 62] subject, then, upon this subject, | shall be able to have no thoughts, except routine-thoughts. | haven't yet quite decided absolutely everything, so | am able to point out: That this substance was of quantity so enormous that it attracted wide attention when it came down-- That it would have been equally noteworthy when it went up-- That there is no record of anyone, in England or elsewhere, having seen tons of "spider webs" going up, Further confession of intelligence upon my part: That, if it be contested, then, that the place of origin may have been far away, but still terrestrial-- Then it's that other familiar matter of incredible "marksmanship" again--hitting a small, triangular space for hours--interval of hours--then from nine in the morning until night: same small triangular space. These are the disregards of the classic explanation. There is no mention of spiders having been seen to fall, but a good inclusion is that, though this substance fell in good-sized flakes of considerable weight, it was viscous. In this respect it was like cobwebs: dogs nosing it on grass, were blindfolded with it. This circumstance does strongly suggest cobwebs-- Unless we can accept that, in regions aloft, there are vast viscous or gelatinous areas, and that things passing through become daubed. [paragraph continues] Or perhaps we clear up the confusion in the descriptions of the substance that fell in 1841 and 1846, in Asia Minor, described in one publication as gelatinous, and in another as a