Apart from our three factors of indication, an extraordinary observation is the fall of living things without injury to them. The devotees of St. Isaac explain that they fall upon thick grass and so survive: but Sir James Emerson Tennant, in his _History of Ceylon_, tells of a fall of fishes upon gravel, by which they were seemingly uninjured. Something else apart from our three main interests is a phenomenon that looks like what one might call an alternating series of falls of fishes, whatever the significance may be: Meerut, India, July, 1824 (_Living Age_, 52-186); Fifeshire, Scotland, summer of 1824 (_Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans._, 5-575); Moradabad, India, July, 1826 (_Living Age_, 52-186); Ross-shire, Scotland, 1828 (_Living Age_, 52-186); Moradabad, India, July 20, 1829 (_Lin. Soc. Trans._, 16-764); Perthshire, Scotland (_Living Age_, 52-186); Argyleshire, Scotland, 1830, March 9, 1830 (_Recreative Science_, 3-339); Feridpoor, India, Feb. 19, 1830 (_Jour. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal_, 2-650). A psycho-tropism that arises here--disregarding serial significance--or mechanical, unintelligent, repulsive reflex--is that the fishes of India did not fall from the sky; that they were found upon the ground after torrential rains, because streams had overflowed and had then receded. In the region of Inertness that we think we can conceive of, or a zone that is to this earth's gravitation very much like the neutral zone of a magnet's attraction, we accept that there are bodies of water and also clear spaces--bottoms of ponds dropping out--very interesting ponds, having no earth at bottom--vast drops of water afloat in what is called space--fishes and deluges of water falling-- But also other areas, in which fishes--however they got there: a matter that we'll consider--remain and dry, or even putrefy, then sometimes falling by atmospheric dislodgment. After a "tremendous deluge of rain, one of the heaviest falls on record" (_All the Year Round_, 8-255) at Rajkote, India, July 25, 1850, "the ground was found literally covered with fishes." The word "found" is agreeable to the repulsions of the conventionalists and their concept of an overflowing stream--but, according to Dr. Buist, some of these fishes were "found" on the tops of haystacks. Ferrel (_A Popular Treatise_, p. 414) tells of a fall of living fishes--some of them having been placed in a tank, where they survived--that occurred in India, about 20 miles south of Calcutta, Sept. 20, 1839. A witness of this fall says: "The most strange thing which ever struck me was that the fish did not fall helter-skelter, or here and there, but they fell in a straight line, not more than a cubit in breadth." See _Living Age_, 52-186. _Amer. Jour. Sci._, 1-32-199: