StNicholas . ard ofafter. One of the advantages enjoyedby balloonists is, that they canin a measure choose their ownweather, especially in the sum-mer-time. 15y this I mean thatthey can rise above the clouds-into dear sunlight, no matterhow dreary or storm)- it may benear the earth, and they can go-up high enough to be just as coolas they could possibly wish. In one of their ascensions,Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell, ofwhom I have before spoken, leftthe earth in a balloon on a cloudy, sultry day in passed through cloud after cloud, fog afterfog, expecting every moment to come out intos
StNicholas . ard ofafter. One of the advantages enjoyedby balloonists is, that they canin a measure choose their ownweather, especially in the sum-mer-time. 15y this I mean thatthey can rise above the clouds-into dear sunlight, no matterhow dreary or storm)- it may benear the earth, and they can go-up high enough to be just as coolas they could possibly wish. In one of their ascensions,Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell, ofwhom I have before spoken, leftthe earth in a balloon on a cloudy, sultry day in passed through cloud after cloud, fog afterfog, expecting every moment to come out intosunlight, and to see the blue sky above them ; butthey went upward through this vast mass of fogand cloud until they had attained a height of fourmiles; and still they were not out of the was not considered prudent to go any higher,and so they very reluctantly began to descendwithout having penetrated through these immense Nicholas for .April, 1878. Page 416. 32 SOME BALLOON EXPERIENCES. [Novcr-iBER,. layers of cloud and fog. On coming down, theypassed through a fall of rain, and then, somedistance below that, through a snow-storm, the airall about them being thick with snow-flakes. This,it must be remembered, was in the summer-time,when the people on the earth had no idea that asnow-storm was going on above them, or that theclouds they saw over them were four miles another occasion, three balloonists went upwardthrough a snow-storm \ery much like the onewhich Messrs. Cylaisher and Coxwell passed throughduring their descent. People who make balloon voyages very oftentake birds with them, especially pigeons, which they let loose at a great height. When not toohigh above the earth, pigeons frequently fly di-rectly to their homes, but at ? a height of three orfour miles they sometimes seem bewildered, andact as if they did not know how to find their wayback to the ground. They fly around andaround, and occasionally alight upon the top ofthe balloon, and stay ther
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