INTRODUCTION. 



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amphitheatre, divided like a map, and made up 

 of objects rendered too diminutive hy their dis- 

 tance to be well defined, and which appear to have 

 no altitude at the great height from which we 

 view them ; — and you may get some idea of the 

 sensation produced by a view from a becalmed 

 balloon. We seem, as it were, to have been divested 

 of all terrestial connections from the vast distance 

 of the earth, and the terrific space with which we 

 are surrounded, when raised above the smoke and 

 stir of that dim spot which men call earth, we 

 feel as if we were breathing in delicious tranquil- 

 lity, the pure ether of celestial regions." 



