516 Ufa of Balloons. [Book V. 



mcnts which were foon to fucceed; and the art of 

 navigation was long known, before the mariners com- 

 pafs enabled the daring but fcientific genius of a Co- 

 lumbus to traverfe the vaft expanfe of the Atlantic 

 ocean. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



