. 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" . SPOT WHERE THEY PELL Dans ce cimctierc sunt inhumes Francois Pi lathe de Rozier, & Pierre Ange Romain, qui vouluut passer en Angleterre dans un Adrostatc, oh ils avoient renin le pi-nccdc du Fen a Pair inflammable, pa* un accident, dont nn ignorera toujours la ver
. 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" . SPOT WHERE THEY PELL Dans ce cimctierc sunt inhumes Francois Pi lathe de Rozier, & Pierre Ange Romain, qui vouluut passer en Angleterre dans un Adrostatc, oh ils avoient renin le pi-nccdc du Fen a Pair inflammable, pa* un accident, dont nn ignorera toujours la veritable cause, le feu avoit pris a la partie supcrieure du balon; ils tombcrent de la hauteur de plus de 5000 pieds, entrc Wimereux& la mer. LOn a place une inscription au pieds delai»uille de lcndroit de leur chute; une seconde sur lemur exterieur de Pcglise. Passants, plaignez leur sort,e<. priez Dieu pour le repos de leurs , la douleur,Et lamitic leur ont elevcCe monument en Pannee1 ami des arts & de la veritc,Au printemps de ses jours, par un noble courage,Le premier dans les airs il souvrit tin passage,Et pcrit au eliemin de matin dans les airs eomble de la gloire,Le soir no rcste deux que la memoire ;Montrant de riiomme au meme instantEt la grandeur & le \i#)^$J*:*i&ii* 30 Tuesday, July 19, 1785, M. Crosbie again ascendedat Dublin. Friday, July 22, 1785, Major Money went up atNorwich, and dropped into the water, and was picked upby a cutter. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1785, M. Arnold and his sonattempted a voyage in a fire balloon from St. GeorgesFields: the machine, however, after rising and going ashort distance, came down and threw out; hisson then rose again alone, but the balloon taking fire in theair, he was soon precipitated with its remnants into theriver. My late uncle Benjamin, my father, M. Eldridge,and M. H. Williams of West Ham were witnesses of thisunfortunate affair. In August of this year, M. Blanchard
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