CHAPTER XX.Breathed freely. Thermometer 60.Section 114.REspiration at so great an Altitude was perfectly free andeasy:forcedTrials being made for Information on that Point: a Sensation of Levity seemedratherto be communicated by the Air to the Lungs: but this might be the Effect of the Imagination. It was however acuriousCircumstance to find the Breathnotvisible; the Thermometer risingagainto 60. Nor did the Pulse seem to be quicker thanusual, in this elevated tho’inactiveSituation.Thunder-Clouds as before.115. The Perspective of a vast Series of Thunder-Clouds of asulphúreousandmetallicTinge, placing themselves in Ranks, each beyond the other, inbrightand tremendous Order, and a Sort ofBattle-Array, beyond Conceptiongrandyetbeautiful; coud not passunderhim without Notice. The immense circular and visible Distance of thenebulousHorizon, extendednow102 Milesat the leastround the Eye, as already mentioned (Sect. 52); was a grand Source of the Sublime.Fairy Landscapes striking.Nor did the contracted View of the Landscape below fail, in Turn, toregainan Attention to itsindiscriminateyetpleasingScenery.116.On a suddenhe was called back to himself.Bladderscrackling.Several of theBladders, which were tyed round the Car, in Case the Balloon shoudalight onthe Sea, and weredryon the Outside, began at the same Instant tocrackle; being greatly distended by the Air within.When pressed with the Hands and Fingers, they felt extremely hard, andreadytoburst.Balloonbloated.On looking upwards at the Balloon, it appearedgreatlyinflated: the external Pressure of the surrounding Air beingmuch lessened, in so elevated andrarifieda State of the Atmosphere.Balloonquiltedby internal Pressure.117. The Balloonpressedin an unusual Mannerthrou’the Meshes of the Net, quite round.Balloon shorter and broader.118. The Shape was much altered by this Distention of the Sides: and itsperpendicularDiametershorterthan before.Neck 8 Feet above the Car.119. The Neck orMouth, which wastyed, had actually risenupwards, and wasthenneareightFeetabovethe Bottom of theCar.Neck cut off in a former Excursion.120. It was not known till afterwards, that Mr. Lunardi on his second aërial Voyage from Liverpool, had been obliged to cut off thelowerPart of theNeck, weighing upwards oftwoPounds and ahalf, in order to lightenhis Descent near Tarporley in Cheshire; and that he had notSilksufficient to repair the Loss.
CHAPTER XX.
Breathed freely. Thermometer 60.
Section 114.REspiration at so great an Altitude was perfectly free andeasy:forcedTrials being made for Information on that Point: a Sensation of Levity seemedratherto be communicated by the Air to the Lungs: but this might be the Effect of the Imagination. It was however acuriousCircumstance to find the Breathnotvisible; the Thermometer risingagainto 60. Nor did the Pulse seem to be quicker thanusual, in this elevated tho’inactiveSituation.
Thunder-Clouds as before.
115. The Perspective of a vast Series of Thunder-Clouds of asulphúreousandmetallicTinge, placing themselves in Ranks, each beyond the other, inbrightand tremendous Order, and a Sort ofBattle-Array, beyond Conceptiongrandyetbeautiful; coud not passunderhim without Notice. The immense circular and visible Distance of thenebulousHorizon, extendednow102 Milesat the leastround the Eye, as already mentioned (Sect. 52); was a grand Source of the Sublime.Fairy Landscapes striking.Nor did the contracted View of the Landscape below fail, in Turn, toregainan Attention to itsindiscriminateyetpleasingScenery.
116.On a suddenhe was called back to himself.
Bladderscrackling.
Several of theBladders, which were tyed round the Car, in Case the Balloon shoudalight onthe Sea, and weredryon the Outside, began at the same Instant tocrackle; being greatly distended by the Air within.When pressed with the Hands and Fingers, they felt extremely hard, andreadytoburst.
Balloonbloated.
On looking upwards at the Balloon, it appearedgreatlyinflated: the external Pressure of the surrounding Air beingmuch lessened, in so elevated andrarifieda State of the Atmosphere.
Balloonquiltedby internal Pressure.
117. The Balloonpressedin an unusual Mannerthrou’the Meshes of the Net, quite round.
Balloon shorter and broader.
118. The Shape was much altered by this Distention of the Sides: and itsperpendicularDiametershorterthan before.
Neck 8 Feet above the Car.
119. The Neck orMouth, which wastyed, had actually risenupwards, and wasthenneareightFeetabovethe Bottom of theCar.
Neck cut off in a former Excursion.
120. It was not known till afterwards, that Mr. Lunardi on his second aërial Voyage from Liverpool, had been obliged to cut off thelowerPart of theNeck, weighing upwards oftwoPounds and ahalf, in order to lightenhis Descent near Tarporley in Cheshire; and that he had notSilksufficient to repair the Loss.