The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-10-16
4 MARVELLOUS PANORAMA.
What Was Seen From "a Balloon
az Height al six Thousand
Feet.
FroI an aec'unt Of 'a Ascension With Prof Donald

| SON
| Now came the most stirring incident
%! our trip. From the height OF four
Thousand feet We steadily assembled. M.
country iw-ri.ng i.sfo plnOr,Inl o.
'nf- below u. bva the aneroil bar
"urser n ms iali, and 80 marked our
progress upward. an SIX thousand six
hundred i-'r un, hrrs,As became visible
,i>s a. l'.ry wni.d Dr on a frosty morn
ing. Nr ~.rr.iy hegan to eel cod in
.sl" bndy. hut he a. 81. tie sun L.at in
ON ~ with A tieIcc nat, nsify. The index
oI The barometer s"ldily crept around
TIE d!si. nis Ssg nti The thou .and- until
u rcEr.''a '.t icuiteeuih. then fiying
bsi' X AZ IN ani starting from zero. from
whence II ~ Ogres~e.i once more around
the dial until il halted on the verge of
the Two thousaudtiI. telling Us that We
were only about hundred feet less THAI,
sixteen thousand feet above the earth.
~ this height the world was an obscu
rIt, Ia us. ayt tpOry haze shu, i out from
our view. and we couiI detect nothing
OF II bIt the silver line. THAT marked The
great ta,s and rivers. From confem-
p.aiiUn of the iIIdi.Iinct score | revert
ID NV own feelings. Tie air was vpry
cold, ant the -un was very warm. The
lthermornetsr stood AT ~ degrees, the
sun WAS Intensely hot. as it's rays fell
upon IA. but for all that We might al
vel. lave been la an y ic region. This
J. ore o. the most curious p'ienomens
of lie above the clouds. The rarefac-
ton ~ the air harlv accounts for the
lrhil.,n- coll which peuetrates YOU
through AMI through. white the iher-
IN Iinrier and the heat OF the solar raw
are indicating high Summer tempera-
ture. Alta hight Of fifteen thousand
feet ] was shirerinr. while NV head
seemed 10 be burning up, and all thu.
blood IN my body rushing towards il.
| 'elt a very slight difficulty in breathing. !.
hui my ear Were sioppef ~, aud could
b iTdiy hear y hat Mr.. Fox was saving 10
rie when he was standing hv NV side
We dill not remain long a: this tremen.
d"us elevation. We slipped down
ithTongi the atmosphere TO between
eleven and Twelve thousand feet above
The Garth, and IL was there that we had
our gr2Hdest view. We had within our
range of vision az the same moment
Philadelphia. Baltimore and Harrisburg.
tie ile~apca ke and Delaware Ba,s. end
rall their upper tributaries. and also An
nanoli~ aHl the most of smaller towns
are lncia..cd y ilhin This extended vision.
liut the erandest feature Of all was
when gazing ea>iwarslly. We very plain
~ perceived 'hr Aflaniir Ocean. Their
was no mi-f~ke about IL: fhe mist hsd
lite. q lIits aud We could plainly see
wher. "a. wn'ers of the Delaware BAY
min ns.sd with ihnse nf The Atlantic. The
view g TINS tIVe wa< above the posi-
niliiie- Wt laugusgs 10 picture. The
rrHif MA ~ ilnf between the Chesa-
ye... ana Drlas. are F;ays wa but as q
.t',elf ~ drrk green upon the landscape ::
il'n ~u-qlehspua river was hardly per
.cepiihle except for the dark line which
we knew "a be the great bridge across
IL; The country below M was but as q
.checkerboari Of indisrinrt green and
white squares Biltimore and Philsie-
yhia We're only masses OF shade npon
the map: bat the great ocean was n
reality. snl 10 view of II We cousfan'l,
Turned our eNnS with feeling that here
vas something y everlasting qnd enduring.
z he sunri'ra Thar come within our
srife of vision ws~ probably not les
ibantVciuWiFeA square niles. but from
our hight nf s's'eeu thousand feet ii
seemed 81 Ne dwar't9 - space Won
nighi cover eifh ennr handkerchief.
" -eriEei ~ ~ III Vie were look ing
through tie wrong end ~ fird glass.
When ~ The hight ~ sixteen thousani
feet. or ovf~ fkr.e miles above the earth.
Professor N"rn'' an told ~ That the
b-llo"r' A''lo'ii iel iis equilihrium.i .ihs,
IL was Inisra on ~ exact balaurc. anl
that a. soon ~ tie gas commenced To
condense. even in the slightest degree.
IL would descend rapidly. And IL wa
precisely IN this fashion that we did 90
down.