Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages (1870)
Marion, Fulgence · New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 124
it had received. I fixed up a piece of(loth, and thus made a sort of sail with which I hugged thewind. But the rays of the sun had so heated and rarefiedthe inflammable air that soon I forgot my rigging in think-ing of the terrible danger that threatened me. Going on to narrate the dangers that… … H2; ku\n aa EXPERIMENTS AND STUDIES. 109 Escaped from these impetuous and contrary winds,during which I had felt a great degree of cold, I mountedperpendicularly. The cold became excessive. Being hungryI ate a morsel of cake. I wished to drink, but in searchingthe car nothing was to be seen but the…
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