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ON EIGHT BALLOON ASCENTS IN 1862. 401 
Balloon Ascents. Wolverhampton, August 18, 1862. 
mometers (free). Dear Dry and Wet Thermometers (aspirated). Hygrometers, 
an ee Sa ee ee Se ee eee 
ae Daniell’s. | Regnault’s. 
Diff. |Dew-point.) ppermo- Dry. Wet. Diff. |Dew-point. 
meter. Dew-point. | Dew-point. 
° ° °o ° ° ° ° ° ° 
paeitel || Oetee ; 2575 
Bees = : asm Aint Sacne= oaeae sbecine erence vaso — 85 
feneee 
Cue, 
enone 
weneee 
8. 9. 10. 11. 12, 13. 14, 15. 16. 
large plains or seas of cumulostratus, causing all below to be cloudy for many hundreds of 
Square miles, then many square miles without a cloud to obscure the sun’s rays; other places 
with detached cumuli, whose upper surfaces were connected in vast plains of a hillocky ap- 
pearance ; earth obscured in places by a blue haze or mist; then again cumuli with blue 
mist between them ; the earth cannot be seen owing to the blue mist filling up the spaces 
between the cumuli. In another place, beautiful shining cumuli, and then a sea of detached 
clouds which I cannot describe. Open to the N., S.E., and S.W., obscured to N.E.; saw 50° 
of horizon same height as the eye on looking over the top of the car. A beautiful cloud due 
_N., the same we passed through on leaving Wolverhampton, and has followed us all the way ; 
King of clouds. 
