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1882) that there were pieces from one to seventeen inches in cir- 

 cumference, the largest weighing one pound and three-quarters 

 that upon some of them were icicles half an inch in length. We 

 emphasize that these objects were not hailstones. 



The only merger is that of knobby hailstones, or of large hail- 

 stones with protuberances wrought by crystallization: but that is 

 no merger with terrestrial phenomena, and such formations are 

 unaccountable to orthodoxy; or it is incredible that hail could so 

 crystallize not forming by accretion in the fall of a few seconds. 

 For an account of such hailstones, see Nature, 61-594. Note the 

 size "some of them the size of turkeys* eggs." 



It is our expression that sometimes the icicles themselves have 

 fallen, as if by concussion, or as if something had swept against 

 the under side of an aerial ice floe, detaching its papillations. 



Monthly Weather Review, June, 1889: 



That, at Oswego, N. Y., June n, 1889, according to the Turin 

 (N. Y.) Leader, there fell, in a thunderstorm, pieces of ice that 

 "resembled the fragments of icicles." 



Monthly Weather Review, 29-506: 



That on Florence Island, St. Lawrence River, Aug. 8, 1901, with 

 ordinary hail, fell pieces of ice "formed like icicles, the size and 

 shape of lead pencils that had been cut into sections about three- 

 eighths of an inch in length." 



So our data of the Super-Sargasso Sea, and its Arctic region: and, 

 for weeks at a time, an ice field may hang motionless over a part 

 of this earth's surface the sun has some effect upon it, but not 

 much until late in the afternoon, I should say part of it has 

 sagged, but is held up by cohesion with the main mass whereupon 

 we have such an occurrence as would have been a little uncanny 

 to us once upon a time or fall of water from a cloudless sky, day 

 after day, in one small part of this earth's surface, late in the 

 afternoon, when the sun's rays had had time for their effects: 



Monthly Weather Review, Oct., 1886: 



That, according to the Charlotte Chronicle, Oct. 21, 1886, for 

 three weeks there had been a fall of water from the sky, in Char- 

 lotte, N. C., localized in one particular spot, every afternoon, about 

 three o'clock; that, whether the sky was cloudy or cloudless, the 

 water or rain fell upon a small patch of land between two trees and 

 nowhere else. 



This is the newspaper account, and, as such, it seems in the 

 depths of the unchosen, either by me or any other expression of the 



