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terefl is flill entertained by the public for the fafety of M. Gar- 

 nerin, that the following particulars of his fecond afcent will 

 prove acceptable. The very unfavourable weather, attended 

 with a heavy gale at fouth and fouth-weft, induced M. Gar- 

 nerin to give up his intention of alcending to difplay the pro- 

 mifed experiment of the parachute. In this event, it had 

 been arranged that Mr. Sowden mould once more accom- 

 pany him ; but fome mifunderftanding having taken place 

 between thofe gentlemen, and having had tome previous 

 converfation on the preceding day with M. Garnerin on the 

 fubject, I afcended with him yefterday afternoon at ten mi- 

 nutes before five o'clock from Lord's Cricket-ground. The 

 Itrong afturances of my companion, added to what I had read 

 on the fcience of aeroflation, and the experience of former 

 aeronauts, had fo fully perfuaded me of my perfect fecurity, 

 that I enjoyed the wonderful and enchanting profpeCt which 

 now prefented ilfelf with unmixed pleafure. Although the 

 denfe ftate of the atmofphere obstructed the fight of diftant 

 objects in fo great a degree that our horizon was fomewhat 

 limited, the unufual concourfe of fpeclators, which gradually 

 diminifhed to an undiftinguifhed mafs, and the view of a 

 great part of the metropolis, together with the furrounding 

 country, afforded me an entertainment well worth the pur- 

 chafe of anv fuppofed danger. After throwing out fome 

 part of our ballaft we afcended very rapidly, and by the in- 

 tervention of fome thick clouds (which had much the 

 appearance of a fea of cotton beneath us, as defcribed by 

 Mr. Baldwvn, of Chefter'i, we entirely loft fight of the earth. 

 We moved with much rapidity, although our motion was to 

 me perfectly imperceptible; and at length the clouds di- 

 fperung, we again faw the country below us. I attempted, 

 in vain, to afcertain our fituation, by calling to my recol- 

 lection the appearance of the country, which appeared to me 

 more like a profpeel: feen in a camera, when placed in a very 

 elevated fituation, than any thing to which 1 could compare 

 it; I think a map is an meorrecx compirifon, as the various 

 objects are not, as in nature, delineated with fufficient mi- 

 nu tends to bear fuch a refemblance. — About this time M. 

 Garnerin looked at his watch, and, obferving we had been 

 five minutes on our voyage, propofed to delcend in about the 

 fame time. 



The perufal of Mr. Sowden's narrative led me to obferve, 

 with much attention, the power of hearing noifes below. 

 Neither M. Garnerin nor myi'elf could diftinguifli founds 

 above the elevation of 3 or 4000 feet; though M. Garnerin 



O 3 imagines 



