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back to 1841 days of less efficient strangulation Sir David Milne 

 lists phenomena of quakes in Great Britain. I pick out a few that 

 indicate to me that other worlds were near this earth's surface: 



Violent storm before a shock of 1703 ball of fire "preceding," 

 1750 a large ball of fire seen upon day following a quake, 1755 

 "uncommon phenomenon in the air: a large luminous body, bent 

 like a crescent, which stretched itself over the heavens, 1816 vast 

 ball of fire, 1750 black rains and black snows, 1755 numerous 

 instances of upward projection or upward attraction? during 

 quakes "preceded by a cloud, very black and lowering," 1795 

 fall of black powder, preceding a quake, by six hours, 1837. 



Some of these instances seem to me to be very striking a smaller 

 world: it is greatly racked by the attraction of this earth black 

 substance is torn down from it not until six hours later, after an 

 approach still closer, does this earth suffer perturbation. As to the 

 extraordinary spectacle of a thing, world, super-construction, that 

 was seen in the sky, in 1816, I have not yet been able to find out 

 more. I think that here our acceptance is relatively sound: that 

 this occurrence was tremendously of more importance than such 

 occurrence as, say, transits of Venus, upon which hundreds of 

 papers have been written that not another mention have I found, 

 though I have not looked so especially as I shall look for more data 

 that all but undetailed record of this occurrence was suppressed. 



Altogether we have considerable agreement here between data of 

 vast masses that do not fall to this earth, but from which substances 

 fall, and data of fields of ice from which ice may not fall, but from 

 which water may drip. I'm beginning to modify: that, at a distance 

 from this earth, gravitation has more effect than we have supposed, 

 though less effect than the dogmatists suppose and "prove." I'm 

 coming out stronger for the acceptance of a Neutral Zone that this 

 earth, like other magnets, has a neutral zone, in which is the Super- 

 Sargasso Sea, and in which other worlds may be buoyed up, though 

 projecting parts may be subject to this earth's attraction 



But my preference: 



Here are the data. 



I now have one of the most interesting of the new correlates. I 

 think I should have brought it in before, but, whether out of place 

 here, because not accompanied by earthquake, or not, we'll have it. 

 I offer it as an instance of an eclipse, by a vast, dark body, that has 

 been seen and reported by an astronomer. The astronomer is M. 



