Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" (1832)
Forster, T.(Thomas),1789-1860 · London : Keating and Brown · leaf 98
ded like a map, andmade up of objects rendered too diminutive by their dis-tance to be well defined, and which appear to have noaltitude at the great height from which we view them ;—andyou may get some idea of the sensation produced by a viewfrom a becalmed balloon. One seems, as it were, to… … m We found at about half past six oclock that the- balloonwas still gently ascending; and at this time I becameconscious again of increased altitude by a loud snapping inthe ears. At length we thought it time to prepare for ourdescent, and the valve being opened by pulling the string,we began to…
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