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Illustrated London News, 34-546, are drawings of hailstones so 

 margined, as if they had been held in a sheet of ice. 



Some day we shall have an expression which will be, to our 

 advanced primitiveness, a great joy: 



That devils have visited this earth: foreign devils: human-like 

 beings, with pointed beards: good singers; one shoe ill-fitting 

 but with sulphurous exhalations, at any rate. I have been impressed 

 with the frequent occurrence of sulphurousness with things that 

 come from the sky. A fall of jagged pieces of ice, Orkney, July 

 24, 1818 (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 9-187). They had a strong 

 sulphurous odor. And the coke or the substance that looked like 

 co ke that fell at Mortree, France, April 24, 1887: with it fell a 

 sulphurous substance. The enormous round things that rose from 

 the ocean, near the Victoria. Whether we still accept that they were 

 super-constructions that had come from a denser atmosphere and, 

 in danger of disruption, had plunged into the ocean for relief, then 

 rising and continuing on their way to Jupiter or Uranus it was 

 reported that they spread a "stench of sulphur." At any rate, 

 this datum of proximity is against the conventional explanation that 

 these things did not rise from the ocean, but rose far away above 

 the horizon, with illusion of nearness. 



And the things that were seen in the sky July, 1898: I have an- 

 other note. In Nature, 58-224, a correspondent writes that, upon 

 July i, 1898, at Sedberg, he had seen in the sky a red object or, 

 in his own wording, something that looked like the red part of a 

 rainbow, about 10 degrees long. But the sky was dark at the 

 time. The sun had set. A heavy rain was falling. 



Throughout this book, the datum that we are most impressed 

 with: 



Successive falls. 



Or that, if upon one small area, things fall from the sky, and 

 then, later, fall again upon the same small area, they are not 

 products of a whirlwind, which though sometimes axially stationary, 

 discharges tangentially 



So the frogs that fell at Wigan. I have looked that matter up 

 again. Later more frogs fell. 



As to our data of gelatinous substance said to have fallen to 

 this earth with meteorites, it is our expression that meteorites, tear- 

 ing through the shaky, protoplasmic seas of Genesistrine against 

 which we warn aviators, or they may find themselves suffocating in 

 a reservoir of life, or stuck like currants in a blanc mange that 



