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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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temporary
inconvenience
in
seeing.
Shortly
afterwards
I
laid
my
arm
upon
the
table,
possessed
of
its
full
vigour;
but
directly
after,
being
desirous
of
using
it,
I
found
it
powerless.
It
must
have
lost
its
power
momentarily.
I
then
tried
to
move
the
other
arm,
but
found
it
powerless
also.
I
next
tried
to
shake
myself,
and
succeeded
in
shaking
my
body.
I
seemed
to
have
no
legs.
I
could
only
shake
my
body.
I
then
looked
at
the
barometer,
and
whilst
I
was
doing
so
my
head
fell
on
my
left
shoulder.
I
struggled,
and
shook
my
body
again,
but
could
not
move
my
arms.
I
got
my
head
upright,
but
for
an
instant
only,
when
it
fell
on
my
right
shoulder;
and
then
I
fell
backwards,
my
back
resting
against
the
side
of
the
car,
and
my
head
on
its
edge.
In
that
position
my
eyes
were
directed
towards
Mr.
Coxwell
in
the
ring.
When
I
shook
my
body
I
seemed
to
have
full
power
over
the
muscles
of
the
back,
and
considerable
power
over
those
of
the
neck,
but
none
over
my
limbs.
As
in
the
case
of
the
arms,
all
muscular
power
was
lost
in
an
instant
from
my
back
and
neck.
I
dimly
saw
Mr.
Coxwell
in
the
ring,
and
endeavoured
to
speak,
but
could
not
do
so;
when
in
an
instant
intense
black
darkness
came
over
me,
and
the
optic
nerve
lost
power
suddenly.
I
was
still
conscious,
with
as
active
a
brain
as
whilst
writing
this.
I
thought
I
had
been
seized
with
asphyxia,
and
that
I
should
experience
no
more,
as
death
would
come
unless
we
speedily
descended.
Other
thoughts
were
actively
entering
my
mind
when
I
suddenly
became
unconscious,
as
though
going
to
sleep.
I
could
not
tell
anything
about
the
sense
of
hearing:
the
perfect
stillness
of
the
regions
six
miles
from
the
earth--and
at
that
time
we
were
between
six
and
seven
miles
high--is
such
that
no
sound
reaches
the
ear.
My
last
observation
was
made
at
29,000
feet,
about
fifty-four
minutes
past
one.
I
suppose
two
or
three
minutes
elapsed
between
my
eyes
becoming
insensible
to
seeing
the
fine
divisions
and
fifty-four
minutes
past
one,
and
that
other
two
or
three
minutes
elapsed
before
I
became
unconscious;
therefore
I
think
that
took
place
about
fifty-six
or
fifty-seven
minutes
past
one.
Whilst
powerless
I
heard
the
words
‘temperature,’
and
‘observation,’
and
I
knew
Mr.
Coxwell
was
in
the
car,
speaking
to
me,
and
endeavouring
to
rouse
me;
and
therefore
consciousness
and
hearing
had
returned.
I
then
heard
him
speak
more
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