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obtain: things left over from whirlwinds of the time of the Pharaohs, 

 perhaps: or that Elijah did go up in the sky in something like a 

 chariot, and may not be Vega, after all, and that there may be a 

 wheel or so left of whatever he went up in. We basely suggest that 

 it would bring a high price but sell soon, because after a while 

 there'd be thousands of them hawked around 



We weakly drop a hint to the aeronauts. 



In the Scientific American, 33-197, there is an account of some 

 hay that fell from the sky. From the circumstances we incline to 

 accept that this hay went up, in a whirlwind, from this earth, in 

 the first place, reached the Super-Sargasso Sea, and remained there 

 a long time before falling. An interesting point in this expression 

 is the usual attribution to a local and coinciding whirlwind, and 

 identification of it and then data that make that local whirlwind 

 unacceptable 



That, upon July 27, 1875, small masses of damp hay had fallen 

 at Monkstown, Ireland. In the Dublin Daily Express, Dr. J. W. 

 Moore had explained: he had found a nearby whirlwind, to the south 

 of Monkstown, that coincided. But, according to the Scientific 

 American, a similar fall had occurred near Wrexham, England, two 

 days before. 



In November, 1918, I made some studies upon light objects 

 thrown into the air. Armistice-day. I suppose I should have been 

 more emotionally occupied, but I made notes upon torn-up papers 

 thrown high in the air from windows of office buildings. Scraps of 

 paper did stay together for a while. Several minutes, sometimes. 



Cosmos, 3-4-574: 



That, upon the loth of April, 1869, at Autriche (Indre-et-Loire) 

 a great number of oak leaves enormous segregation of them fell 

 from the sky. Very calm day. So little wind that the leaves fell 

 almost vertically. Fall lasted about ten minutes. 



Flammarion, in "The Atmosphere" p. 412, tells this story. 



He has to find a storm. 



He does find a squall but it had occurred upon April 3rd. 



Flammarion's two incredibilities are that leaves could remain a 

 week in the air: that they could stay together a week in the air. 



Think of some of your own observations upon papers .thrown 

 from an aeroplane. 



Our one incredibility: 



That these leaves had been whirled up six months before, when 



