Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 86
were, perhaps, a little fantastic. Theyliberated a violet bee at an altitude of nearly 10,000feet, which flew away swiftly making a hummingnoise. A green linnet also flew away, but at first,finding itself abandoned in that immense ocean of air,returned and settled on the stays of the balloon. Then,… … A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 69 Placed on the edge of the car, it rested a while,measuring, as it were, the breadth of that unex-plored sea which it designed to traverse ; now launch-ing into the abyss, it fluttered irregularly and seemedat first to try its wings on the element, till, after a…
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