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Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
AEROSTATION . / CITIZEN Garnerin ascended from the Plain de Mousseaux , near Paris , Vv July the 6 th . He was accompanied , for the second time , bva younp- lady , and they both descended in safety at Ezauvile , near Ecotien . He then ascended a second time alone , in order to ascertain tbe greatest oo ' ssible height to which he could reach . His narrative of this second expedition is curious
_ We ^ shall give it in his own words . _ ' Having left my companion , I again ascended at eleven minutes after four in the morning , the wind blowing violently from the south-west . I took with me a quantity of ballast , an anchor , a morsel of bread , and my flag . I wished in this second voyage to find a current of air wliich might take me back towards Pans . I passed through three beds of clouds , which I left beneath my feet , without meeting the current of which I was in quest . I continued to throout billast
w - , and ascended to an excessive height , but without finding- the wished-for breeze from the N . E . I there beheld the rising of the sun , the most brilliant and majestic sight I have ever seen . The ardour of Ins rays relieved me , in some degree , from the tingling and excessive cold which I Felt . The heat at the same time greatly dilated my balloon , which now appeared completel y filled . Continuing to ascend , the balloon was dilated almost to burstingand I was obliged to ive vent to considerable
, g a quantity of gaz . I . judged from these circumstances that' I had attained tne maximum of elevation , which I could reach by the aid of my machine . I wished to have determined this height with precision , but my barometer had been broken in descending the night before at Ezauville . I cannot estimate the height at less than 5000 toises ( iSooofeet ) from , the quantity ot ballast which I had thrown out , the distended fulness ofthe balloon , and the extreme cold b y which I was affected . It is in
these hi gh regions that the existence of the aeronaut is really committed . He must there preserve his coolness and exert his courage , not onl y to brave the aspect of the immense abyss , but to surmount the indispbs tion which he must jihere encounter . His ears tingle , the circulation of the blood becomes more rapid , and his arteries are swelled . The distention or the balloon , and the noise made by the air in escaping , seem to announce hdT ! , d f stru < ft ' ° , r llls bem S > and of the machine which has brought nun to the place of peril . He knows , beside , l-hnt he is In M „» r ^\^ ,.. w „
the most sftotile meteors are kindled , and that tlie contact of one electric spark may set fire to his machine , and annihilate him , like a stroke of thunder . nrrJ ™ ? r aU h - ° , m the situatio " which I have described , without C ' '" . > ' , , an S ' " \ tlle < " « aion of the wind . Having lost every hope , sucke , A - ^ !? wlt *" " < lthe EXCeSsive C 0 ld ' X let s ° '" ; lir < " * of the the ^ ' H n \ se"s , bly descended . In about fifteen minutes I recrossed ^ m t 0 appar more dark Tlle earth Pi « ared to
mv lit , Hit r J *^ ' a rimef ^ 7 . ? . P , a . "'' ere every thing is in chaos . In a little tune the woods and the rivers , the plains and the towns , assumed . 1 distindrer aX , JMOyi th , S s P eilac ? ° ' the creation , as the air was less subtile , earth an ' f ?^ ^ " , , 1 , L J remaindd ^ half an hour between the m the mo ' " , ' ? - d 3 t en J gth tem > in « ed my aerial course at six o ' clock "I the morning , and descended on the plain of Sempigny , near the river
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Scientific Intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE .
AEROSTATION . / CITIZEN Garnerin ascended from the Plain de Mousseaux , near Paris , Vv July the 6 th . He was accompanied , for the second time , bva younp- lady , and they both descended in safety at Ezauvile , near Ecotien . He then ascended a second time alone , in order to ascertain tbe greatest oo ' ssible height to which he could reach . His narrative of this second expedition is curious
_ We ^ shall give it in his own words . _ ' Having left my companion , I again ascended at eleven minutes after four in the morning , the wind blowing violently from the south-west . I took with me a quantity of ballast , an anchor , a morsel of bread , and my flag . I wished in this second voyage to find a current of air wliich might take me back towards Pans . I passed through three beds of clouds , which I left beneath my feet , without meeting the current of which I was in quest . I continued to throout billast
w - , and ascended to an excessive height , but without finding- the wished-for breeze from the N . E . I there beheld the rising of the sun , the most brilliant and majestic sight I have ever seen . The ardour of Ins rays relieved me , in some degree , from the tingling and excessive cold which I Felt . The heat at the same time greatly dilated my balloon , which now appeared completel y filled . Continuing to ascend , the balloon was dilated almost to burstingand I was obliged to ive vent to considerable
, g a quantity of gaz . I . judged from these circumstances that' I had attained tne maximum of elevation , which I could reach by the aid of my machine . I wished to have determined this height with precision , but my barometer had been broken in descending the night before at Ezauville . I cannot estimate the height at less than 5000 toises ( iSooofeet ) from , the quantity ot ballast which I had thrown out , the distended fulness ofthe balloon , and the extreme cold b y which I was affected . It is in
these hi gh regions that the existence of the aeronaut is really committed . He must there preserve his coolness and exert his courage , not onl y to brave the aspect of the immense abyss , but to surmount the indispbs tion which he must jihere encounter . His ears tingle , the circulation of the blood becomes more rapid , and his arteries are swelled . The distention or the balloon , and the noise made by the air in escaping , seem to announce hdT ! , d f stru < ft ' ° , r llls bem S > and of the machine which has brought nun to the place of peril . He knows , beside , l-hnt he is In M „» r ^\^ ,.. w „
the most sftotile meteors are kindled , and that tlie contact of one electric spark may set fire to his machine , and annihilate him , like a stroke of thunder . nrrJ ™ ? r aU h - ° , m the situatio " which I have described , without C ' '" . > ' , , an S ' " \ tlle < " « aion of the wind . Having lost every hope , sucke , A - ^ !? wlt *" " < lthe EXCeSsive C 0 ld ' X let s ° '" ; lir < " * of the the ^ ' H n \ se"s , bly descended . In about fifteen minutes I recrossed ^ m t 0 appar more dark Tlle earth Pi « ared to
mv lit , Hit r J *^ ' a rimef ^ 7 . ? . P , a . "'' ere every thing is in chaos . In a little tune the woods and the rivers , the plains and the towns , assumed . 1 distindrer aX , JMOyi th , S s P eilac ? ° ' the creation , as the air was less subtile , earth an ' f ?^ ^ " , , 1 , L J remaindd ^ half an hour between the m the mo ' " , ' ? - d 3 t en J gth tem > in « ed my aerial course at six o ' clock "I the morning , and descended on the plain of Sempigny , near the river