. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 299 day, — just as flying-machines are now. Themost daring aeronaut of that period was aFrenchman, Francois Blanchard, who hadbuilt a balloon with sails and a rudder whichpromised so well that Jeffries resolved to accom-pany him on a voyage for the purpose of making a full investigation of the nature and propertiesof the atmosphere which surrounds us and* the effect which oars or wings might be madeto produce in directing the course of the paper in which the alert doctor d
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 299 day, — just as flying-machines are now. Themost daring aeronaut of that period was aFrenchman, Francois Blanchard, who hadbuilt a balloon with sails and a rudder whichpromised so well that Jeffries resolved to accom-pany him on a voyage for the purpose of making a full investigation of the nature and propertiesof the atmosphere which surrounds us and* the effect which oars or wings might be madeto produce in directing the course of the paper in which the alert doctor describedthe resulting experiment was read before theRoyal Society of London in January, 1786. The doctor had not found it at all easy topersuade Blanchard to let him come along asa passenger, for the aeronaut did not relish theidea of cluttering up his car with maps, numer-ous scientific instruments, and bottles for thereception of the atmosphere at different heightsabove the earth which Jeffries insisted upontaking. But, says the narrator of the voyage, I resolved to gratify
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