Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-18

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I~ercns &<>HtnH
All Wha lave mads anything Ike high -
cents have exhsnsted tropes and figures ~
attempting to describe tksr emotions in the
presence Of what they beheld- To my
thinking il il too much ike trying y Do
scribe music-when all Is said the motion =
not reproduced, or but usFy family. Still
We have at least to deal with visual objects
and scenic effects. Tho horror aud mystery
of suddenly comingt to . black cloud 800 feet
thick-so thick that the balloon ceased to De
visible from the car-this can be realized.
Il was dlAishsrs experience in Coxwells
big balloon. A snow storm At high alti-
tudes Is very expressive and lonesome.
About 10000 feet above CamberWelL in the
middle ofa hot june, Mr.. Lthgoe told me
he was refreshed with one, and came down
with his balloon in midsummer still covered
With snow. / have noticed the strangely
solid. fixed and often motionless appearance
of the white billowy clouds, treach-
erous pillows inviting one to step
out and recline upon them without Q hint
of instability. Presently smitten with .
crimson cloud, their edges may break into
fame, and as one looks, q spent nit Is
made, and through them is seen . distant
wilderness of the deep ornamental blue,
Let US ascend soon after sunset in imagi-
nation. Nothing can exceed the weird 80
lemnity of night in a balloon. To toat
above London aud see the whole city like
ono vast Aamemap at ones feet twelve
mile square Of irradisted street with the
river picked out BY the electric light, and
AZ one rises the whole shruuk to about the
size of a chess board. Tue vision in a mo
ment reduces tfs migh,iest city in the
world to the proportions Of . toy. The
earth itself, a. We ascend higher and higher,
loses Importance in the "clear obscure
above us, TO which We seem hurrEing space.
Only tie heavens are now worthy OF con
temptation, but the stars are changed, they
hang more golden and globulsr, as in the
trop;c. or as in the poets vision.
The clear galaxy
RShOrp Of its hoary iustre, wGn iertI
listiuCt and vivid With sharp points oil light
As a cloud rolls away from the opal
Widths" of the moon the stars grow faint
She is light, but hangs in the blue blackuess,
and seems to give no light, so greatly
attenusted is the light-beariug ether in
which we now swim. Perhaps the physical
emotions confuse or intensity the power OF
the eye. This singing in my ears is op.
pressive; this constant oozing Of blood in
my mouth, is to say the least, trying. lam
also very cold, the Thermometer many
degrees below zero; but the cold is dry and
bearsble, and there is little wind; but
. black veil hangs beneath, just edged here
ard there with silver and shot with moon
fakes. Ny head begins TO swim; pull the
valve; LET us descend. Down through the
plight, into the moon-aaked cloud; It's 500
feet thick, and seems to have formed in a
moment. 1t hangs over US now. Still
down. down, thousands of feet. The lghtA
of earth CLEAN feebly beneath me like tiny
sparks. The great city has vanished. l
have had no sense of travelling, but have
foated clear over London. The rapidity Of
our descent was terrific. In another mo-
uent I smell the hay. This midnight; the
still summer fields are close beneath US.
The moonlight is now diffuSed and soft, the
air is warm and scented. The car drops 81.
lenly like . feather; We alight on neW-mown
har-