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self at the elevation of 13,200 feet, when, in consequence of the dis- 
tention of the balloon, he was under the necessity of discharging a 
part of the inflammable air. 
About twelve o’clock, when 3600 feet from the earth, he heard the 
barking of dogs ; about two o’clock in the morning he saw several 
meteors flying about him, but none of them so near as to create ap- 
prehension ; at half past three he beheld the sun emerging in brilliant 
majesty above an ocean of clouds, and the gas being thereby expanded, 
the balloon soon rose 15,000 feet above the earth, where he felt the 
cold extremely intense. In seven hours and a half from his departure, 
Mr. Garnerin descended near Loges, forty-five leagues distant from 
Paris. 
On the twenty-first of September, 1807, the same intrepid aeronaut 
undertook a second nocturnal voyage’ in the course of which he was 
exposed to the most imminent danger. M. Garnerin, prognosticating 
an approaching storm from the state of the atmosphere, refused to 
be accompanied by a second person, w ho earnestly requested it.' He 
ascended, therefore, alone from Tivoli, and was carried up, with 
^unexampled rapidity, to an immense height above the clouds: the 
balloon was there dilated to an alarming degree, and M. Garnerin, 
having been prevented, by the impatience of the mob before his 
ascent, from regulating those parts of the apparatus which were meant 
to conduct the gas away from the lamps on its escape, was totally 
unable to manage the balloon; he had no alternative left, therefore, 
but with one hand to make an opening two feet ii! diameter, through 
wbicii the inflammable air was discharged in great quantities, and 
w ith the other to extinguish as many of the lamps as he could possibly 
reach. The adventurer was now without a regulating valve, and the 
balloon, subject to every caprice of the whirlwind, was tossed about 
from current to current. When the storm impelled him downwards, 
he was obliged to cast out his ballast, to restore the ascending tenden- 
cy; and, at length, every resource being exhausted, no expedient was 
left him, to provide against future exigencies. In this forlorn condi- 
tion, the balloon rose through thick clouds, but afterwards sunk, and 
the car having struck against the ground with a violent impulse, 
rebounded from it to a considerable altitude. The fury of the storm 
dashed him against the mountains, and, after many rude agitations 
and severe shocks, he was reduced to a state of temporary insensibi- 
lity. On recovering from this perilous situation, he reached Mount 
Tonnere in a storm of thunder. A very short time after, his anchor 
hooked in a tree, and in seven hours and a half after his departure, 
he landed at the distance of three hundred miles from Paris, which 
is at the rate of forty miles per hour, supposing his course to have 
been straight. This is only about half the velocity wdth which this 
gentleman, in one of his excursions in this country, was conveyed 
from London to Colchester, a distance of sixty miles, which he passed 
over in three-quarters of an hour. 
We shall next give an account of an aerial excursion by our intre- 
pid countryman, Sadler, who undertook the perilous task of passing 
from Dublin to Liverpool, on the first of October, 1813. He ascend- 
ed from Belvidere House, about one o’clock on the above day, with 
