THE
SECOND PART
OF AN
AËRIAL EXCURSION
FROM CHESTER THE EIGHTH OF SEPT. 1785.
CHAPTER XVIII.
RE-ASCENT OF THE BALLOON.
Section 101. BELLAIR-Meadow: half past III o’Clock:[32] Thermom. at 55: bright Sun: few Clouds in Sight.
Balloon rapidly re-ascending.
The Balloon being now 31 Pound lighter; taking a Direction from the Sea-Breeze into the Country, and again towards Aston-Hall[33]; mounted up like a Sky-Rocket, with accelerating Velocity: its upper Parts nodding from Side to Side, as if to shake off the resisting Column of Air immediately above it.
The Neck tyed.