Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . affectionately implored him to * come over onthe right side. Jeffries, too, was one of thosewho were wont to sit nightly at Earl Percyshospitable dinner-table during the days of theOccupation and, in the account of his Voyageshe indignantly denies that it was a flag of theUnited States that he suspended from the carof his balloon as he set out on his epoch-makingtrip. Jeffries was graduated from Harvard in for his medical training and his degrees inscience he went to London and Aberdeen, —as indeed
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . affectionately implored him to * come over onthe right side. Jeffries, too, was one of thosewho were wont to sit nightly at Earl Percyshospitable dinner-table during the days of theOccupation and, in the account of his Voyageshe indignantly denies that it was a flag of theUnited States that he suspended from the carof his balloon as he set out on his epoch-makingtrip. Jeffries was graduated from Harvard in for his medical training and his degrees inscience he went to London and Aberdeen, —as indeed he must have done, — and at theevacuation of Boston he accompanied the troopsto Halifax, where he was made by Lord Howesurgeon-general of the forces in Nova December, 1780, he resigned and returned toLondon, where he practised successfully andoccupied himself with scientific investigation. Interested in all kinds of experiments, hespent a good deal of time studying the construc-tion of balloons, for when he was in his primeaerial navigation was the wonder topic of the. y. (u
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