Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ons covered the distanceof 145 miles in 8| hours, whilethe swallows arrived in 1 hour 7minutes ; the speed of the latterwas therefore three times that ofthe former. Two swallows, whichhad been trained at Koulaix, werestarted from the Invalides inParis, and reached their home,which was at a distance of 1)3miles, in 75 minutes. It wasproposed in consequence of this feat to start a training-stationfor swallows in the fort of Mont. Valerien. Interesting expe
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ons covered the distanceof 145 miles in 8| hours, whilethe swallows arrived in 1 hour 7minutes ; the speed of the latterwas therefore three times that ofthe former. Two swallows, whichhad been trained at Koulaix, werestarted from the Invalides inParis, and reached their home,which was at a distance of 1)3miles, in 75 minutes. It wasproposed in consequence of this feat to start a training-stationfor swallows in the fort of Mont. Valerien. Interesting experiments with swallows have been reported inthe papers from time to time, and the following deserves swallows had built their nest near the chateau of Nielles-les-Ardres in the department of Pas de Calais. A gardenercaught one of the birds, and took it in a bag to the exhibition inParis. On the next morning it was let loose at at thefoot of the Eiffel Tower. It rose up to the first gallery on the(ewer, crossed the Seine, and disappeared in a northerly direc-tion without a moments hesitation. At it reached. Fig. 220.—Dark slate-coloured car-rier pigeon belonging to HerrFloring. The bird, which is shown carrying a messageon iis Left teg, is i years old. has made lilteen ascents in a balloon, and covered , 100 miles on the return journeys. CAERIEE PIGEONS FOE BALLOONS. 35J Nielles, and was recognised at once by the red ribbon which wastied round its leg. It had covered the distance of L50 miles in2 hours 16 minutes. The country must have been strange to fchebird, because it is hardly likely it would pass over Paris as itmigrates from Calais to Africa, even supposing it did not go bythe shortest course. As a result of his experiments with balloons, Ploring gives thefollowing as the mean speeds of the carrier pigeon ; in goodweather, 26 miles an hour, , 88 ft. per second ; in less favour-able weather, 20 miles an hour, , 30 ft. per second ; a
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