99. During these Operations; the Aironaut had observed different Persons in Motion towards him, who proved to be several Farmers and Labourers who had run themselves out of Breath to overtake the Balloon.
One asked the Aironaut, whether he intended to alight; and was answered, “Not for any Time.”
Proof of the gentle Descent.
100. The Car alighted each Time so smoothly, that neither the Watch nor Thermometer that lay near each other on the green Bays at the Bottom, were displaced. Nor was the Glass Tube containing the Quicksilver, separated from the Division of the Frame in which it was originally fixed: but the whole was brought back, a few Days after, in a perfect State: except a small Hole, made in Consequence of the inverted Situation of the Mercury in Vacuo, which fell against the Top of the exhausted Tube.
Balloon landed near Frodsham.
The Car first landed at 28 Minutes past III, in a Field belonging to a Farm called Bellair, in the Township of Kingsley, near two Miles East by South from the Town of Frodsham, and twelve from Chester.
END OF THE FIRST PART.
AIROPAIDIA.