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held for ages in suspension in the Super-Sargasso Sea falling, or 

 shaken, down occasionally by storms 



But, by preponderance of description, we can not accept that 

 "thunders tones" ever were attached to handles, or are prehistoric 

 axes 



As to attempts to communicate with this earth, by means of 

 wedge-shaped objects especially adapted to the penetration of vast, 

 gelatinous areas spread around this earth 



In the Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., 9-337, there is an account of a 

 stone wedge that fell from the sky, near Cashel, Tipperary, Aug. 2, 

 1865. The phenomenon is not questioned, but the orthodox prefer- 

 ence is to call it, not ax-like, nor wedge-shaped, but "pyramidal." 

 For data of other pyramidal stones said to have fallen from the sky, 

 see Kept. Brit. Assoc., 1861-34. One fell at Segowolee, India, 

 March 6, 1853. Of the object that fell at Cashel, Dr. Haughton 

 says in the Proceedings: "A singular feature is observable in this 

 stone, that I have never seen in any other: the rounded edges of 

 the pyramid are sharply marked by lines on the black crust, as per- 

 fect as if made by a ruler." Dr. Haughton's idea is that the marks 

 may have been made by "some peculiar tension in the cooling." It 

 must have been very peculiar, if in all aerolites not wedge-shaped, 

 no such phenomenon had ever been observed. It merges away with 

 one or two instances, known, after Dr. Haughton's time, of seeming 

 stratification in meteorites. Stratification in meteorites, however, 

 is denied by the faithful. 



I begin to suspect something else. 



A whopper is coming. 



Later it will be as reasonable, by familiarity, as anything else 

 ever said. 



If some one should study the stone of Cashel, as Champollion 

 studied the Rosetta stone, he might or, rather, would inevitably 

 find meaning in those lines, and translate them into English 



Nevertheless I begin to suspect something else: something more 

 subtle and esoteric than graven characters upon stones that have 

 fallen from the sky, in attempts to communicate. The notion that 

 other worlds are attempting to communicate with this world is 

 widespread: my own notion is that it is not attempt at all that it 

 was achievement centuries ago. 



I should like to send out a report that a "thunderstone" had 

 fallen, say, somewhere in New Hampshire 



