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principal avenues, iar several ea were to be traced the ancient 
ithe the ae Short, and aaa ma ae were also very 
abun 
The me important discovery in this cave, however, was made 
in a small chamber, about three miles from the entrance, first 
noticed by my guides, Messrs. Cutlip and Lee. On the dry soil 
of the floor were to be seen the imprints of the sandaled feet of 
the former race who had jahabited the cave, while a large num- 
ber of cast-off sandals were found, neatly made of finely-braided 
and twisted leaves of rushes.—Zi ighth Annual Rep. Peabody 
Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, 1875. 
2. The catastrophe of the Zenith—On the morning of the 16th 
of April last, under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences, the 
Zenith, containing the three experienced aeronauts, Captain Sivel, 
Croeé-Spine iand Gaston Tissandier, and well equipped for sci- 
entific work, started on its ascent from the gas works of La 
Villette, Paris By 1 o’clock, at noon, they had bee an alti- 
tude exceeding 5,000 meters, the barometer marking a pressure of 
400 millimeters, and the thermometer 5°C. They had “Ee in 
bags for breathing in the upper rarefied air, and found it very 
beneficial, At 1" 20’ the HO tastes marked 320 mm., Somhec ice an 
last of 25 §ilog rams each that were hanging outside. The three 
e 
consciousness was leaving him, read from the barometer 280 mm.. 
but was already too much paralyzed to speak out his wie 9 ca 
8,000 meters, Tissandier and his friends partially revived, as the 
all Tecan 
asphyxiated. The oe ig hit oe nage ¥ ballast w ries 
ent. 
rapidly, gn "Tissandier —— conscious; and at 4 oelbek it 
struck the earth at Ciron near Le Blanche with a spl shock, 
Sivel and Crové were dead, their faces black and their mouths a 
f : 
registering barometer, was 8,540 to 8,600 meters, e lessons 
taught to science are: that man cannot safely make a rapid bal- 
loon ascent to an altitude of 8,000 a | that the only chance 
for reaching alive that altitude in a balloon is by making the rate 
of ascent above 7,000 meters very slow, pity 12 hours at least 
