[103]Inferred in the Chester Chronicle, Sept. 30, 1785.
[104]The Writer not having yet been able to procure it from the London Booksellers.
[105]See Chambers’s Dictionary under the Article resistence.
[106]See his “Navires des Anciens.”
[107]See “Gordon’s Principles of Naval Architecture.”
Also the Balzaes and Guaraes, in Ullòa’s Voyage to America, Book 4, Chapter 9, Vol. 1, Page 183.
[108]Mons. Carra proposed to ascend with two Balloons. One, a seventh Part less than the other, is to be connected by a Rope, throu’ a Pulley fixed in the equatorial Hoop of the great Balloon, to a Reel in the Center of the Car: in descending, the Reel is to be unwound: the great Balloon and Car will therefore descend, while the small Balloon remains in the Air. The Scheme is certainly practicable. See the Cut in the London Magazine for June, 1784.
[109]See “Lewis’s Commerce of the Arts.”
[110]See Priestley’s numerous Experiments: and that Library of curious Investigation, the Philosophical Transactions.
[111]And Magnitude of distant Objects.