The magazine of American history with notes and queries . nts to the kind protections of that day. Oh, Gracious Father,may I be influenced by it as I ought through my life ! Mar. 5. At quarter after four oclock, arrived, thank God, at MargaretSt., Cavendish Square, London. Under royal consent the Corps municipal de la ville et Comte deGuines voted Feb. 17th 1785 to erect a monument at public expense wherethe balloon alighted in the forest. It still stands, but shorn of its cap andtablets, awaiting the repairs which it is hoped a centennial interest, &c,may secure. FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE ACROSS TH
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . nts to the kind protections of that day. Oh, Gracious Father,may I be influenced by it as I ought through my life ! Mar. 5. At quarter after four oclock, arrived, thank God, at MargaretSt., Cavendish Square, London. Under royal consent the Corps municipal de la ville et Comte deGuines voted Feb. 17th 1785 to erect a monument at public expense wherethe balloon alighted in the forest. It still stands, but shorn of its cap andtablets, awaiting the repairs which it is hoped a centennial interest, &c,may secure. FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 87 INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT OF THE COLUMN. Regnante Ludovico XVI Anno Joannes Petrus Blanchard-Gallus. Comites Joannes Jeffries. Britannus Die VII. Mensis Januarii Hora. la. Post meridiana. Ex Arce Dubriensi Machina Aerostatica In sublime Evectus Fretum Britanniam inter et Galliam Primus superavit, Ex post Horas II. S. Aerii cursus Hoc in loco consedit, Audaciam mirati Novam Cives Guisnenses hocce Monumentum THE COLUMN. SS FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL On the reversed sides of the column are engraved, on the one, the Armsof Guines, and on the other those of the Viscount Desandrouin. ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE COLUMN. Sous le regne de Louis Jean Pierre Blanchard des Andelis en Normandie Accompagne de Jean Jeffries, Anglois Partit du Chateau de Douvres Dans un Aerostat, Le VII Janvier, a une Heure et un quart Traversa le premier les Airs Au-dessus du Pas de Calais Et descendit a Trois Heures Trois Quarts Dans le Lieu meme ou les Habitans de Guisnes Ont £leve cette Colonne A le Gloire des deux Voyageurs.(Signe) De Guizelin, Lt. de Maire Fortin, Berger, De Launay, Le Fevre Echevins et Officiers Municipaux
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