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REPORT 1866. 



Table I. c. 



-Meteorological Observatious made in the Twenty-eighth Balloon 

 Ascent, from Windsor, May 29, ISGG. 



1, 



6. 



(3) Sajid discharged. 



• (1) Thermometer on wool 21°, that in space 19°. 

 (2) Thermometer on wool 20^°, that in space 18^°. 

 (4) Beautiful appearance of detached clouds on earth. 

 (0) Black clouds, and very high, completely cover the sky aboTe. 



(6) Moon visible ; still moving N.N.W., both by the moon and compass. 



(7) Changed direction ; moving S.E. 



(8) Whilst supplying the wet-bulb thermometer with water I fell against the lamp, and it 

 was extinguished ; came to the groxmd at 7 o'clock at Eidgemouth, near Wobum, Bed- 

 fordshire. 



(9) Left the earth. (10) Direction due S. 



(11) Thermometer in sim reads 53°. (12) Fine view of Ascot Kacecourse to S.W. 



(13) The numerous hawthorn trees in blossom are like snowballs on the ground. The 

 blackened bulb thermometer in sun reads 49°. (14) Sand discharged. 



