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The crux here, and the limit beyond which we may not go very 

 much is: 



Acceptance that there is a region that we call the Super-Sargasso 

 Sea not yet fully accepted, but a provisional position that has 

 received a great deal of support 



But is it a part of this earth, and does it revolve with and over 

 this earth 



Or does it flatly overlie this earth, not revolving with and over 

 this earth 



That this earth does not revolve, and is not round, or roundish, 

 at all, but is continuous with the rest of its system, so that, if one 

 could break away from the traditions of the geographers, one might 

 walk and walk, and come to Mars, and then find Mars continuous 

 with Jupiter? 



I suppose some day such queries will sound absurd the thing 

 will be so obvious 



Because it is very difficult to me to conceive of little metallic ob- 

 jects hanging precisely over a small town in Russia, for four 

 months, if revolving, unattached, with a revolving earth 



It may be that something aimed at that town, and then later took 

 another shot. 



These are speculations that seem to me to be evil relatively to 

 these early years in the twentieth century 



Just now, I accept that this earth is not round, of course: that 

 is very old-fashioned but roundish, or, at least, that it has what is 

 called form of its own, and does revolve upon its axis, and in an 

 orbit around the sun. I only accept these old traditional notions 



And that above it are regions of suspension that revolve with it: 

 from which objects fall, by disturbances of various kinds, and then, 

 later, fall again, in the same place: 



Monthly Weather Review, May, 1884-134: 



Report from the Signal Service observer, at Bismarck, Dakota: 



That, at 9 o'clock, in the evening of May 22, 1884, sharp sounds 

 were heard throughout the city, caused by a fall of flinty stones 

 striking against windows. 



Fifteen hours later another fall of flinty stones occurred at Bis- 

 marck. 



There is no report of stones having fallen anywhere else. 



This is a thing of the ultra-damned. All Editors of scientific pub- 

 lications read the Monthly Weather Review and frequently copy 

 from it. The noise made by the stones of Bismarck, rattling against 



