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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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now
taut,
and
fully
distended.
Soon
the
hydrogen
gas
began
to
escape
in
considerable
quantities
by
the
neck
of
the
balloon,
and
then,
from
time
to
time,
I
pulled
open
the
valve
to
give
it
two
issues
at
once;
and
I
continued
thus
to
mount
upwards,
all
the
time
losing
the
inflammable
air,
which,
rushing
past
me
from
the
neck
of
the
balloon,
felt
like
a
warm
cloud.
“I
passed
in
ten
minutes
from
the
temperature
of
spring
to
that
of
winter;
the
cold
was
keen
and
dry,
but
not
insupportable.
I
examined
all
my
sensations
calmly;
I
COULD
HEAR
MYSELF
LIVE,
so
to
speak,
and
I
am
certain
that
at
first
I
experienced
nothing
disagreeable
in
this
sudden
passage
from
one
temperature
to
another.
“When
the
barometer
ceased
to
move
I
noted
very
exactly
eighteen
inches
ten
lines.
This
observation
is
perfectly
accurate
The
mercury
did
not
suffer
any
sensible
movement.
“At
the
end
of
some
minutes
the
cold
caught
my
fingers;
I
could
hardly
hold
the
pen,
but
I
no
longer
had
need
to
do
so.
I
was
stationary,
or
rather
moved
only
in
a
horizontal
direction.
“I
raised
myself
in
the
middle
of
the
car,
and
abandoned
myself
to
the
spectacle
before
me.
At
my
departure
from
the
meadow
the
sun
had
sunk
to
the
people
of
the
valleys;
soon
he
shone
for
me
alone,
and
came
again
to
pour
his
rays
upon
the
balloon
and
the
car.
I
was
the
only
creature
in
the
horizon
in
sunshine--all
the
rest
of
nature
was
in
shade.
Ere
long,
however,
the
sun
disappeared,
and
thus
I
had
the
pleasure
of
seeing
him
set
twice
in
the
same
day.
I
contemplated
for
some
moments
the
mists
and
vapours
that
rose
from
the
valley
and
the
rivers
The
clouds
seemed
to
come
forth
from
the
earth,
and
to
accumulate
the
one
upon
the
other.
Their
colour
was
a
monotonous
grey--a
natural
effect,
for
there
was
no
light
save
that
of
the
moon.
“I
observed
that
I
had
tacked
round
twice,
and
I
felt
currents
which
called
me
to
my
senses.
I
found
with
surprise
the
effect
of
the
wind,
and
saw
the
cloth
of
my
flag:
extended
horizontally.
“In
the
midst
of
the
inexpressible
pleasure
of
this
state
of
ecstatic
contemplation,
I
was
recalled
to
myself
by
a
most
extraordinary
pain
which
I
felt
in
the
interior
of
the
ears
and
in
the
maxillary
glands.
This
I
attributed
to
the
dilation
of
the
air
contained
in
the
cellular
tissue
of
the
organ
as
much
as
to
the
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