Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . 3,000 feet.(Photograph by Oskar Haldin.) bring us over the sea long before the fifteen hours were over. Wetherefore threw out a lot of ballast and rose higher than ever,getting into a southerly breeze. Malmo was therefore passed onthe left, and the university town of Lund on the right. Afterthis the map was of no further use, as it was quite dark and wehad no lamp. The whole outlook was like a transformation of light rose up from Trelleborg,
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . 3,000 feet.(Photograph by Oskar Haldin.) bring us over the sea long before the fifteen hours were over. Wetherefore threw out a lot of ballast and rose higher than ever,getting into a southerly breeze. Malmo was therefore passed onthe left, and the university town of Lund on the right. Afterthis the map was of no further use, as it was quite dark and wehad no lamp. The whole outlook was like a transformation of light rose up from Trelleborg, Malmo, Copenhagen,Landskrona, Lund, Elsinore, and Helsingborg, while the little AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT. towns beneath our feet sparkled with many lights. We were nowat :«. height of mora Limn 10,000 n,. and consequently nil thoseplaces were within sight. The glistening effect of the snow washeightened by the blazewhich poured from the lighthouses alongthe coasts of Sweden and Denmark. The sight was as wonderfulas that of the sunset had been, though of a totally differentnature. We supposed the light In Malmo to be Prom arc lamps;. FIG, L89, iMi:;.li:ilclli«»rn, iVom ; <msI, ihOWlSg alS0 Lh(i l«v Hohbalen glaoiers.(Photograph bj Spell ti ) Its brightness was very marked. Wo round later on visiting thetown that there was ^o electric light in the streets, but onlyWelsbaoh burners: yet the olfe^t produced in the distanoe wasreally brilliant. The Pole-star was our guiding light; the was useless in the dark. Wo also guided ourselves to someextent by the lights below, and as soon as we saw that the ooursewas not due north, more ballast was thrown out, and at oncewe got again into the southerly breeze. There seemed now bobe no tendenov bo drift towards ihe oast. BALLOONING AS A SPORT. 223 Sometimes there was a slight mist on the ground, but thisobstructed the outlook very little. Soon we were struck by thefact that the earth seemed to be covered wit
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