. 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" . ace, and GO from Ranelagh. We wereonly three quarters of an hour on the way. To night 1intend to be in London with the balloon, which is torn topieces. We ourselves are all over bruises. Colchester is 51 miles from London, in the east northeast direction ; so that
. 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" . ace, and GO from Ranelagh. We wereonly three quarters of an hour on the way. To night 1intend to be in London with the balloon, which is torn topieces. We ourselves are all over bruises. Colchester is 51 miles from London, in the east northeast direction ; so that the velocity cannot be estimated atless than 70 miles in the hour. 37 The appearance of the balloon excited astonishmentamong the country people, and in Colchester. That townwas in an uproar all Monday night and till Tuesday after-noon ; and the two travellers were much delighted withtheir reception. Monday, July 5, 1802, I saw M. Garnerin ascend again in a long balloon, from Marylebone: he descended at (hingford. The voyage was performed during rain, which, T remember, much impeded the view of the spectators. B. M. Forster, my father, and other scientific men were present. A long account of it is to be found in the Event Book, MS. 4to, 1802, where there is the following marginal drawing, showing the shape of the balloon:—. The following is from the proces verbal of this ex-periment :— From the extreme density of the clouds the balloon wasout of sight in three minutes after the cords were cut, and gaz-ing on the wide expanse, they left one of the most immensemultitudes ever assembled in the metropolis. Notwithstandingthe violence of the wind, they rose to the height of 7,800feet, about a mile and a half, and descended at ten minutesafter five, without the least injury, at Chingford, near EppingForest, having traversed a space of 17 miles in nearly 15minutes. Such interest had this famous aeronaut excited,that for several hours before the ascent all the Metropoliswas in an
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