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ent on all pos-sible occasions. In one of his early voyages he met with whathe describes as one of the most perilous de-scents in the whole history of ballooning. Theoccasion was an evening ascent made from the THE BALLOON A SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT 61 Vauxhall Gardens one autumn night of 1848.The… … Coxwell. GrLAlSHEK. aloft were slung on a framework forty feetbelow the car. The balloon rose high above London, andthe party were amazed and delighted with thestrange and lovely view of the great city bynight, all sight of the houses being lost in thedarkness, and the thousands of gas lamps,…
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