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The power of exclusionists lies in that in their stand are combined both modern and archaic systematists. Falls of sandstone and limestone are repulsive to both theologians and scientists. Sandstone and limestone suggest other worlds upon which occur processes like geological processes; but limestone, as a fossiliferous substance, is of course especially of the unchosen.
According to Kirkwood, Meteoric Astronomy, a substance like charred paper fell in Norway and other parts of northern Europe on Jan. 31, 1686. In the Annals of Philosophy, 16-68, the substance was described as “a mass of black leaves, having the appearance of burnt paper, but harder, and cohering, and brittle.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.57 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
The first of the “black rains of Slains” fell on Jan. 14, 1862, as recounted by Rev. James Rust in his book Scottish Showers. In all, eight black rains fell between 1862 and 1866 in Slains.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p29-30 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Black rain fell in Switzerland on Jan. 20, 1911. According to Nature, 85-451, “in certain conditions of weather, snow may take on an appearance of blackness that is quite deceptive.” Fort comments: “May be so. Or at night, if dark enough, snow may look black. This is simply denying that a black rain fell in Switzerland, Jan. 20, 1911.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.28 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Snowflakes the size of saucers fell at Nashville, Tenn. on Jan. 24, 1891.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.19 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
