The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-17
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balloon ascent from Lowell, Mass, on
july 9th. The following Is from ms
narrative of the adventure:
awe had now reached a highly In
teresting point of eur voyage! Con.
sulting the time piece, we saw that II
was two minutes of two o'clock. The
aneroid registered twenty-iour and three
tenths,s Above US was . vast White
iheet OF mist extending to the horizon
I norton OF which cloud soon envelop'
Id US, the car passing up rapidly
through iLc rWe had scarcely entered
il Khsn the sudden chill before men-
tioned seemed to strike us, beginning
at the lower part OF the spine ana
travelling up the back towards the neck
iesvipg thef most peculiar sensation.
I'VE were now between the two masses
offleecy cloud, the lower stratum murky
and forbidding, hiding the earth alto
gether from us. Immediately frotes-
cor King threw out q few handfuls OF
ballast, and in less time than 1t took
I, record the fact we were gracefully
risng through it into different region
Far shove the threatening blackness;
The g,audeur, the superb lovellness OF
Q real Soud scene now filled us with
wonder and admiration. We had come
up, az it were, through the apex OF q
cone in shape similar to our balloon
bu. once through the core we broke
again into the purest of atmospheres,
the spotless blue beaming over head in
indescribable purity. { Gradually we
rose from our valley OF the inner cone,
and on all sides towering above us were
Iimmeasurshle mountains OF clouds re-
preventative OF the purest snow, the
earth and all but sky and clouds being
hidden from us. Away beyond the
Epreci pice-like masses extend endless
|plains OF fleecY snow-that is, in ap-
pearance-heautIlpl by the azure above.
lNot more than hundred feet distant
was what / shall call he Great Colossus
Ia cloud whose density gave 1t the
character ofthe real rather than the
".mistical, into whose huge, sides we
Nhoped 10 plough before ascending to
take a fast survey of tn. sublime
spectacle, bat the current prevented
our reaching it. For some moments
1--we had been enveloped in tie mist
when suddenly we shot up above Grea.
Colossus and the neighboring peaks
Ilaunching into the blue. Everything
seemed to fall with great rapidlty as w
rose. Here we were on q level with th'
lhighest clouds visible in space. Nov
the glorious King OF Day broke fourth
and amid dazzling brilliancy we gazet
upon the white stratum beneath us, 81
bright as 10 affect the vision. Neve
did the lines Of Thomson eeem mon
appropriate
The kindly azure and the mountains broy
Illumined with fluid gold, bis near approach
Betoken glad.
He looks on houndless majesty abroad,
And sheds the shining day that, burnlsheo
l. plays
On rocksand hills and towers and wander
! Ing streams. -
| So awIully grand was this scene that
my experienced companion averred ht
hsd never seen anything more lovely
and impressive. The continued chill
to the gas: now began to tell, and We
descended again through the apex o
the cone, bidding farewell 70 one o.
the most glorious visions within my
memory. The clouds seemed to rise
upward, as though subjected to great
| pressure. 1t was four minutes past two
the auereii measured Twenty-Five
Four minutes later we looked in the
direction OF Tewksburry and heard
children playing somewhere beneath
us. Next, the rumble of freight train
greeted ua, and We discovered we were
nearly over the Lowell and Nashua
railroad.
The clouds now seemed as far above
us as they had been beneath Us but q
few minutes before. We were rapidly
approaching wood in a southeastern
direction. We shouted to Try the effect
of the echo, when, 10 our surprise, we
were answered by farm laborer. Dis
posing OF come more ballast, we again
lieh the mundane, and rose straight into
a dark, angry looking cloud, apparently
about FIVE hundred feet thick. II the
Egyptian fog could be felt, l am sure
this could be. The foggy yisitations Of
February in New York we're but az a
trifle compared with it. At nineteen
minutes past two, the barometer regis
tered p $40, We were shut up in one
Of the most murky OF aerial dungeons,
neither earth nor sky being visible; nor
could we tell whether we were travelling
in an easterlv or southern direction, a.
we discovered considerable
EMOTION IN THE ATMOSPHERE,
The car swinging once or twice in an
unusual manner, causiug US to re-
tvelve completely. Coming suddenly
out OF this mist into the broad sun
shine the eyes seemd TO weaken,
and prevented us IRON seeing clearly
how we. were sailing. We rose again
above some snowy mountain clouds,
land with the exception OF the gaunt
giant made special mention OF previ-
ously, the cone scene night be said to
have been repeated. Upward We fly
agaiu, until the sneroil barometer reg
listers 81 $40. We nolonger hear the
screechiBg of the railnad engines. the
rushing sound at the water falls, and
the soundo the hammer. Science and
labor are alike silent, the stiffness no
less grand than the vastness OF the
scene as it breaks upoi us.
In the upper curep We appeared to
have travelled very rDidly. Lynn and
Salem could be clearlr seen, while Bos-
ton harbor and Chdsea beach were
alec in view, the fahant perinsuis
looked ike q crooked piece Of ribbon
| in the water. We contemplated 10
cross over Boston Common in less than
an hour, should the current hold out.
Suddenly We dropped again, however
and our hopes OF soaring over Bunker