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fishes were sticklebacks; that they had fallen with ice and small 

 frogs, many of which had survived the fall. We note that, at Dum- 

 ferline, three months later (Oct. 7, 1841) fell many fishes, several 

 inches in length, in a thunderstorm. (London Times, Oct. 12, 1841.) 



Hailstones, we don't care so much about. The matter of stratifica- 

 tion seems significant, but we think more of the fall of lumps of ice 

 from the sky, as possible data of the Super-Sargasso Sea: 



Lumps of ice, a foot in circumference, Derbyshire, England, May 

 12, 1811 (Annual Register, 1811-54); cuboidal mass, six inches 

 in diameter, that fell at Birmingham, 26 days later (Thomson "Intro, 

 to Meteorology," p. 179); size of pumpkins, Bungalore, India, May 

 22, 1851 (Kept. Brit. Assoc., 1855-35); masses of ice of a pound 

 and a half each, New Hampshire, Aug. 13, 1851 (Lummis, "Meteor- 

 ology," p. 129) ; masses of ice, size of a man's head, in the Delphos 

 tornado (Ferrel, "Popular Treatise," p. 428) ; large as a man's hand, 

 killing thousands of sheep, Texas, May 3, 1877 (Monthly Weatkef 

 Review, May, 1877); "pieces of ice so large that they could not be 

 grasped in one hand," in a tornado, in Colorado, June 24, 1877 

 (Monthly Weather Review, June, 1877); lumps of ice four and a 

 half inches long, Richmond, England, Aug. 2, 1879 (Symons' Met. 

 Mag., 14-100); mass of ice, 21 inches in circumference that fell 

 with hail, Iowa, June, 1881 (Monthly Weather Review, June, 1881) ; 

 "pieces of ice," eight inches long, and an inch and a half thick, 

 Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1882 (Monthly Weather Review, Aug., 

 1882); lump of ice size of a brick; weight two pounds, Chicago, 

 July 12, 1883 (Monthly Weather Review, July, 1883); lumps of 

 ice that weighed one pound and a half each, India, May (?), 1888 

 (Nature, 37-42); lump of ice weighing four pounds, Texas, Dec. 

 6, 1893 (Sc. Am., 68-58); lumps of ice one pound in weight, Nov. 

 14, 1901, in a tornado, Victoria (Meteorology of Australia, p. 34). 



Of course it is our acceptance that these masses not only accom- 

 panied tornadoes, but were brought down to this earth by tornadoes. 



Flammarion, "The Atmosphere," p. 34: 



Block of ice, weighing four and a half pounds that fell at Cazorta, 

 Spain, June 15, 1829; block of ice, weighing eleven pounds, at 

 Cette, France, Oct., 1844; mass of ice three feet long, three feet 

 wide, and more than two feet thick, that fell, in a storm, in Hun- 

 gary, May 8, 1802. 



Scientific American, 47-119: 



That, according to the Salina Journal, a mass of ice, weighing 

 about 80 pounds had fallen from the sky, near Salina, Kansas, Aug., 



