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balloon suddenly rose in the air, and carried the'untorin ' 

 nate Count along with it. JNu accounts of him have sines' 

 that time been heard. 



Bologna, August 24. 

 The following is a more particular account of the new 

 aerial excursion which was undertaken here on the 22d by 

 Count Zambcccari and M. Andreoli, both known by thei? 

 unfortunate expedition of the same kind last year. They 

 ascended in the presence of an immense concourse of spec- 

 tators ; for besides the 70,000 inhabitant ? of this city, about 

 60,000 strangers were collected from the neighbouring places* 

 The spectators took their station chiefly on the surround- 

 ing hills, and formed a beautiful spectacle. At six in the 

 morning a signal was made by the firing of three cannon, 

 and at ten the ascent took place. About one the balloon 

 was entirely out of sight ; and the inhabitants and strangers 

 who had viewed the scene, were agitated between hope and 

 fear for the fate of the intrepid aeronauts, when Dr. Aii- 

 drcoli arrived unexpectedly in a post-chaise, at four in thr* 

 afternoon, with his arm bound up. The people imme- 

 distely flocked round him, all anxious to know what had 

 become of Count Zambcccari. The account which Dr. 

 Andreoli gave was as follows 1 In order to prevent their 

 being carried too near to the Adriatic sea, thev had suffered 

 the balloon to descend at Capo d'Argine, the first post-sta- 

 tion on the road to Ferrara, and had made their anchor fast 

 to an elm. At the moment when it caught one of the 

 branches, the ear received a violent shock, by means -of the 

 rope, which threw down a i'nw sparks from the Montgolfier 

 lire- pan contained in the ear, and kindled some spirit of 

 wine in the vessel below. Alarmed at this apparent dan- 

 ger, Dr. Andreoli let himself clown to the tree by the anchor- 

 rope,' and laid hold of & branch; but the branch breaking 

 he fell to the earth, and received a contusion on his arm. 

 The balloon being rendered much lighter by the doctor's 

 quitting it, and more inflated by the lire which took pftice 

 in the car, could no longer be kept down, though two 

 peasants, who had' hold of the rope, exerted all their 

 strength for that purpose. It rose again into- the air with 

 the velocity of lightning, and disappeared in the clouds. 

 .Not without reason, therefore, did people apprehend that) 

 Count Zamheccari would be exposed to the horrid fate of 

 being burnt alive in the upper regions. But this intrepid 

 aeronaut, though exposed to the greatest danger, did not 

 lose his presence of mind. He found means to extinguish 

 the fire in the car ; and, as the rudder was in flames, to 

 throw it down to the earth, where it was found : but it wa3 

 not considered as a proof of the Count's safety. He now en- 

 1 deavoured 



