. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . t a snapping ofropes, or bursting of the balloon, might precipitate us headlong to theground, enhances the effect of the enterprize ; and when wc lean overthe car, suspended as it were between Earth and Heaven, the mindindulges in a thousand romantic reveries; and
. Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages, including those of the author : to which are added, observations on the partial deafness to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" . t a snapping ofropes, or bursting of the balloon, might precipitate us headlong to theground, enhances the effect of the enterprize ; and when wc lean overthe car, suspended as it were between Earth and Heaven, the mindindulges in a thousand romantic reveries; and we could almost Stretchout our hand to stay the chariot of some goddess drawn by peacocks,or to catch a few of those fairy phantoms of the air which fable acting oncredulity may have built up in the imagination during the season ofcurious childhood. Taken as a whole, Aerostation, as well as navigation, proves the per-severing industry of man in overcoming the difficulties which the elementspresent to his projects, and in attaining to as much knowledge as canbe gained of surrounding Nature, in this our earthly pilgrimage,A mode of employing time both useful and agreeable, and which feedsthe flame of life with new combustibles, while the measured grainsof our span of existence are running out through the hourglass ofmortality,. INDEX OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY REMARKS, ORIGIN (IF AEROSTATION, AERIAL AND ALPINE VOYAGES, p. 1. SEC. PAGE //. Of the tarty attempts to fli/ 6 ///. Of the fire balloons and aerial voyages 7 IV. Of aerostation in England and other countries 15 V. Aerial and a/pine voyages since the year 1785 33 VI. Aeria voyage of the author 74 ///. Supplementary addition to the above annals S3 CHAPTER 11. MISCELLANEOUS Of guiding balloons,power of steam, as a means of impelling boots, not applicable to balloons 94 II. Indicators of changing wind 96 ///. Of Kites 98 CHAPTER III. OF THE AFFECTIONS OF THE ORGANS OF HEARING OCCASIONEDBY AERIAL JOURNE
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