The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 36
ishChannel. Mason, in atrocious English, describes thescene : OVER THE CHANNEL IN A BALLOON. 33 On either side below us the interminable oceanspread its complicated tissue of waves without in-terruption or curtailment, except what arose fromthe impending darkness, and the limited extent ofour own… … THE GREAT NASSAU AT NIGHT, PASSING OVER THE DISTRICTOF LIEGE, IN BELGIUM. {From a sketch by Monck Mason.) still lingered above the horizon and losing them againas they turned their opposing outlines towards adarker quarter. Through openings in the floor of cloud, which laybeneath them when they…
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