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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
·
Fulgence Marion
103
“Travelling
at
our
present
hurricane
pace,
we
shall
undoubtedly
lift
up
and
overturn
the
machine
and
what
it
is
drawing.
But
shall
we
not
be
crushed
ourselves?
A
few
paces
still
intervene
between
us
and
our
foe,
and
we
give
vent
to
a
shout
of
terror.
“It
is
heard,
and
the
locomotive
answers
it
by
a
whistle,
then
slackens
its
pace,
and
after
seeming
to
hesitate
an
instant
backs
quickly
and
only
just
in
time
to
give
us
a
free
passage,
whilst
the
driver,
waving
his
cap,
salutes
us
with--
“‘Look
out
for
the
wires!’
“The
caution
was
well
timed,
for
we
had
not
noticed
the
four
telegraph
wires
which
we
rapidly
approached.
We
energetically
ducked
our
heads
on
seeing
them,
but
fortunately
we
escaped
any
more
damage
than
having
two
or
three
of
our
ropes
cut.
These
we
continued
to
drag
after
us
like
the
tail
of
a
ragged
comet,
having
the
telegraph-wires
and
the
posts
which
lately
supported
them
attached
to
us.”
After
having
been
dragged
thus
for
some
time
at
the
mercy
of
a
hurricane
which
they
ought
to
have
been
able
to
avoid,
these
aerial
navigators
at
last
got
entangled
in
the
outskirts
of
a
wood
near
Rethem,
in
Hanover.
A
few
broken
arms
and
legs
paid
for
their
temerity
in
meddling
with
this
monster,
and
one
and
all
of
the
passengers
have
reason
to
be
thankful
that
it
will
be
unnecessary
for
us
to
proclaim
their
virtues
and
their
fate
in
our
next
chapter.
Chapter
X.
The
Necrology
of
Aeronautic
We
will
conclude
this
second
part
by
giving
a
brief
notice
of
some
of
those
who,
in
the
early
days
of
aerostation,
fell
martyrs
to
their
devotion
to
the
new
cause,
and
sometimes
victims
to
their
own
want
of
foresight
and
their
inexperience.
First
among
these
is
Pilatre
des
Roziers,
with
whose
courage
and
ingenuity
our
readers
are
already
familiar.
After
the
passage
of
Blanchard
from
England
over
to
France
this
hero,
who
was
the
first
to
trust
himself
to
the
wide
space
of
the
sky,
resolved
to
undertake
the
return
voyage
from
France
to
England--a
more
difficult
feat,
owing
to
the
generally
adverse
character
of
the
winds
and
currents.
In
vain
did
Roziers’
friends
attempt
to
make
him
understand
the
perils
to
which
this
enterprise
must
expose
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