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1882. We are told that Mr. W. J. Hagler, the North Santa Fe" 

 merchant became possessor of it, and packed it in sawdust in his 

 store. 



London Times, April 7, 1860: 



That, upon the i6th of March, 1860, in a snowstorm, in Upper 

 Wasdale, blocks of ice, so large that at a distance they looked like 

 a flock of sheep, had fallen. 



Kept. Brit. Assoc., 1851-32: 



That a mass of ice about a cubic yard in size had fallen at Can- 

 deish, India, 1828. 



Against these data, though, so far as I know, so many of them 

 have never been assembled together before, there is a silence upon 

 the part of scientific men that is unusual. Our Super-Sargasso Sea 

 may not be an unavoidable conclusion, but arrival upon this earth 

 of ice from external regions does seem to be except that there 

 must be, be it ever so faint, a merger. It is in the notion that 

 these masses of ice are only congealed hailstones. We have data 

 against this notion, as applied to all our instances, but the ex- 

 planation has been offered, and, it seems to me, may apply in some 

 instances. In the Bull. Soc. Astro, de France, 20-245, it is said 

 of blocks of ice the size of decanters that had fallen at Tunis that 

 they were only masses of congealed hailstones. 



London Times, Aug. 4, 1857: 



That a block of ice, described as "pure" ice, weighing 25 pounds, 

 had been found in the meadow of Mr. Warner, of Cricklewood. 

 There had been a storm the day before. As in some of our other 

 instances, no one had seen this object fall from the sky. It was 

 found after the storm: that's all that can be said about it. 



Letter from Capt. Blakiston, communicated by Gen. Sabine, to 

 the Royal Society (London Roy. Soc. Proc., 10-468) : 



That, Jan. 14, 1860, in a thunderstorm, pieces of ice had fallen 

 upon Capt. Blakiston's vessel that it was not hail. "It was not 

 hail, but irregular shaped pieces of solid ice of different dimen- 

 sions, up to the size of half a brick." 



According to the Advertiser-Scotsman, quoted by the Edinburgh 

 New Philosophical Magazine, 47-371, an irregular-shaped mass of 

 ice fell at Ord, Scotland, Aug., 1849, after "an extraordinary peal 

 of thunder." 



It is said that this was homogeneous ice, except in a small part, 

 which looked like congealed hailstones. 



The mass was about 20 feet in circumference. 



