Voyages and Difcovtries. 201 



©f 'diftin&ion, who witneiTed our afcenfion at Lord's Cricket 

 Ground. 1 am, &c. 



Greenwich, July 6. Ed. HaWKE LOCKER, 



(COPY.) Julys, 1S02. 



" We, the underfigned, having been prefent at the afcenfion of M. Gar* 

 nerin with his balloon this afternoon, and witnefled the entire fatisfaftion 

 of* the public, beg leave to recommend him to the attention of any gentle- 

 man in whole neighbourhood he may happen to defcend. 



George, P.W. Befborotigh. R. Ford." 

 G. Devonshire. Cathcart. 



M. Garnerin's balloon afcended at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, at 

 ten minutes before five, and defcended at Chingford-green, in EfTex, in a 

 field of Mr. Owen's, at rive minutes pad five, paffiug a diftance of nine 

 miles in one quarter of an hour : this circumftance attefted at the King's 

 Head, Chingford-green, in the prefence of 



George Clinton Davies, Thomas Williams, 



John Hughes, Stamp-office* London t George Soames, 



John Od.li ins,, Richard Pamphilion. 



Garnerin, ? _. ... . „ , . - 



E II I ockcr i ^" e aerial travellers upon this occafion. 



We believe Mr. Locker means to publifn a fuller account 

 of his voyage. 



VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES. 



C. Riedle, gardener to the expedition under Capt. Baudin, 

 has addrefled the following letter to C. Thouin, profeflbr in 

 .the National Mufeum of Natural Hiftory : 



" Ifland of Timor. September ?.R, iSot. 



M We left the Ifle of France on the 25th of April laft. Our 

 pafiTage to Lewin's Land., New Holland, was thirty-two days. 

 Scarcely had we arrived on the coaft, when the currents drove 

 us to the diftance of more than ten leagues. We, however, 

 Succeeded in approaching it, and coafted along it for feveral 

 days at the diftance of about two leagues without obferving a 

 fingle place where we could Jand in fafety with the boat. The 

 whole coaft is bordered with reefs; itprefents a barren afpecl:, 

 and nothing isfeen butftnall buihes am id ft white fand. But, 

 when w:e reached the latitude of Point North, we difcovered 

 a v;ili: bay, the entrance of which appeared to be at leaft fif- 

 teen leagues in breadth, and which penetrates more than ten 

 leagues inland. It w.as called the Baye du Geograpbe*. 



" We anchcred in this bay on the 28th of May. The 

 fir ft care of our commandant was, to difpatch an officer to 

 found it, and conftruct a chart of it. I obtained leave to go 

 in the boat. We landed at a place bare of wood, but orna- 



Qted with a great variety of plants. I much regret that I 

 was able to remain here only a few moments, 



" Next day we hove up our anchor in order to take a fta- 

 * This U the name of the commodore's vcflcl. 



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