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dences. If not conceivably could very large hailstones and lumps of 

 ice form in this earth's atmosphere, and so then had to come from 

 external regions, then other things in or accompanying very large 

 hailstones and lumps of ice came from external regions which wor- 

 ries us a little: we may be instantly translated to the Positive 

 Absolute. 



Cosmos, 13-120, quotes a Virginia newspaper, that fishes said to 

 have been catfishes, a foot long, some of them, had fallen, in 1853, 

 at Norfolk, Virginia, with hail. 



Vegetable debris, not only nuclear, but frozen upon the surfaces 

 of large hailstones, at Toulouse, France, July 28, 1874. (La Science 

 Pour Tous, 1874-270.) 



Description of a storm, at Pontiac, Canada, July n, 1864, in 

 which it is said that it was not hailstones that fell, but "pieces of 

 ice, from half an inch to over two inches in diameter." (Canadian 

 Naturalist, 2-1-308): 



"But the most extraordinary thing is that a respectable farmer, 

 of undoubted veracity, says he picked up a piece of hail, or ice, in 

 the center of which was a small green frog." 



Storm at Dubuque, Iowa, June 16, 1882, in which fell hailstones 

 and pieces of ice (Monthly Weather Review, June, 1882): 



"The foreman of the Novelty Iron Works, of this city, states that 

 in two large hailstones melted by him were found small living frogs." 

 But the pieces of ice that fell upon this occasion had a peculiarity 

 that indicates though by as bizarre an indication as any we've had 

 yet that they had been for a long time motionless or floating some- 

 where. We'll take that up soon. 



Living Age, 52-186: 



That, June 30, 1841, fishes, one of which was ten inches long, 

 fell at Boston; that, eight days later, fishes and ice fell at Derby. 



In Timb's Year Book, 1842-275, it is said that, at Derby, the 

 fishes had fallen in enormous numbers; from half an inch to two 

 inches long, and some considerably larger. In the Athenceum, 1841- 

 542, copied from the Sheffield Patriot, it is said that one of the 

 fishes weighed three ounces. In several accounts, it is said that, 

 with the fishes, fell many small frogs and "pieces of half-melted ice." 

 We are told that the frogs and the fishes had been raised from some 

 other part of the earth's surface, in a whirlwind; no whirlwind speci- 

 fied; nothing said as to what part of the earth's surface comes ice, 

 in the month of July interests us that the ice is described as "half- 

 melted." In the London Times, July 15, 1841, it is said that the 



