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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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mere
clumps
or
groves,
and
the
meadows
and
broad
fields
seemed
no
more
than
garden
plots.
These
marvellous
tableaux,
which
no
painter
could
render,
reminded
us
of
the
fairy
metamorphoses;
only
with
this
difference,
that
we
were
beholding
upon
a
mighty
scale
what
imagination
could
only
picture
in
little.
It
is
in
such
a
situation
that
the
soul
rises
to
the
loftiest
height,
that
the
thoughts
are
exalted
and
succeed
each
other
with
the
greatest
rapidity.
Travelling
at
this
elevation,
our
fire
did
not
demand
continual
attention,
and
we
could
easily
walk
about
the
gallery.
We
were
as
much
at
peace
upon
our
lofty
balcony
as
we
should
have
been
upon
the
terrace
of
a
mansion,
enjoying
all
the
pictures
which
unrolled
themselves
before
us
continually,
without
experiencing
any
of
the
giddiness
which
has
disturbed
so
many
persons.
Having
broken
my
fork
in
my
exertions
to
raise
the
balloon,
I
went
to
obtain
another
one.
On
my
way
to
get
it,
I
encountered
my
companion,
M.
Proust.
We
ought
never
to
have
been
on
the
same
side
of
the
balloon,
for
a
capsize
and
the
escape
of
all
our
hydrogen
gas
might
have
been
the
result.
As
it
was,
so
well
was
the
machine
ballasted,
that
the
only
effect
of
our
being
on
the
one
side
made
the
balloon
incline
a
little
in
that
direction.
The
winds,
although
very
considerable,
caused
us
no
uneasiness,
and
we
only
knew
the
swiftness
of
our
progress
through
the
air
by
the
rapidity
with
which
the
villages
seemed
to
fly
away
from
under
our
feet;
so
that
it
seemed,
from
the
tranquillity
with
which
we
moved,
that
we
were
borne
along
by
the
diurnal
movement
of
the
globe.
Often
we
wished
to
descend,
in
order
to
learn
what
the
people
were
crying
to
us
the
simplicity
of
our
arrangements
enabled
us
to
rise,
to
descend,
to
move
in
horizontal
or
oblique
lines,
as
we
pleased
and
as
often
as
we
considered
necessary,
without
altogether
landing.”
When
they
came
to
Luzarche,
the
delighted
aeronauts
resolved
to
land.
Already
the
people
were
testifying
their
pleasure
at
seeing
them.
Men
came
running
together
from
all
directions,
while
all
the
animals
rushed
away
with
equal
precipitation,
no
doubt
taking
the
balloon
for
some
wild
beast.
Finding
that
their
course
would
lead
them
straight
against
certain
houses,
the
aeronauts
again
increased
their
fire,
and,
slightly
rising,
escaped
the
buildings
that
had
been
in
their
way.
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