Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-11-08
ASHTABUIA O., SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER s, 1862


told Enc that while in the ring he felt
percinlgy cold, slhat hoar frost was all
around tho balloon, and on attempting 10
leave the ring he found his hands frozen,
and he got down how he could that he
found me motionless, with O quiet end
placid expression on the conntcnanee. lie
spoke to me without elicilng a reply, and
fUund was inscnsiblc.
lie then said he felt inscnsibity was
coming over himself that be became anx.
ious TO open the valve that bis hands
failed him and that he seized the line sc.
tween, his teeth and pulled the valve open
until the balloon took turn downwards.
This act is qnite characteristic of Mr.. Cox.
well have never yOt seen him without
ready means of meeting every difficulty as
1t has arisen,wtth a cool SelCpossession that
has always left my mind perfectly easy, and
given me every confidence in his judgment
In the management Of so large a balloon.
MIR. Glaisher is convinced that the bal.
loon Containing only himself md the
oeronaul, CoxweIl,) finally reached an al.
tltude OF over miles, but Of this he /,
not positive. as his abiltyto read the nstru.
mcn's ceased at tho height Of ye und three
quarters miles. On this point he says
On asking Mr.. Coxwell whether he had
noticed the temperature, he said he could
not, as the faces of lhe instruments were
ali towards me but that he had noticed
that The center Of the aneroid barometer its
blue hand, and rope attacked 10 the car
we're in the same straight line. If so, the
reading must have heen between I and
inches. a height Of miles aud half cor
responds 10 inches. A delicate, selfrpg
i>tering minimum thermometer reads minus
IL deg but unfortunately did not rend
it until | WAS out Of the car, end | cannot
say that its index was disturbed.
The account Of the decent was equally in
tercsting, Mr. Glnishcr says:
"On decending when the temperature
rose to II degrees, i. wuS remarked MS warm |
aud at "a degrees, as very warm The ten
perature then gradually increased to 5TS de- |
grccs on reaching the ear'h. 1t was re.
marked that the sand was quite warm TO |
the hand, and steam Issued from il when it |
was discharged Six pigeons were taken
mp. One was thrown out at the height Cf |
three miles; it extended its wings aud drop.
ped as piece Of paper \ second, at four
miles, flew vigorously round and round, np.
parently taking a great dip each time.
y third was thrown ont between four
and FIVE miles, and it fell downwards. a
fourth was thrown out at four miles, when
wc were descending; it flew in circle, and
shortly after alighed on The top of the bal
loon. The two remaining pigeons were
brought down o the ground, Que was found |
TO bc dead, and the other "a carrier) had |
attached TO its neck q note. |, would not
however, leave and when jerkcd off the Gin.
ger returned TO the hand. After quarter
of an hour it began to peek piece Of rib
bon encirciug it's neck, aud then jelked it
off my finger, and ii Hew round two or three
times wi h yigor, aud finally towards VOL
gerhamplOn. Not one, however, returucd
when left on the afternoon of the 9Th.
1T would seem from this ascent that
fire miles from earth is rcry neariy tie hmu
Of human criHcncc. Iii is possible, as the
effect OF each high ascent upon myself has
bcenldllerent, that on another occasion
might be able TO go higher, and it is posi-
BILE that some persons may be able 10 exist
with less air, and bear a greater degree of
cold; but StIlI | think that prudence would
sny 10 all, whenever tho barometer reading
falls as low as i inches, open the valve a
once; the increased information TO he ob
tanned is not commensurate with the increaS-
ed risk"