173. Some Minutes after; on the Retreat of the Clouds, or progressive Motion of the Balloon; he found himself suspended over the most enchanting Meanders of a Rivulet.
Where he coud not tell.
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Aironaut was lost, tho’ in Sight of a Country well known when below.
Section 174. HE thought himself again over the Wever.
At 47 Minutes past III, over a red Rivulet.
At 47 Minutes after III, the Prospect beneath opened, just wide enough to shew, that he was suspended in the open Space over the Center of some Rivulet.
The Map of the Country which had been so carefully studied, was now consulted for the first Time, but coud not bring to his Recollection any Traces of the extraordinary Curves which then met his Eye.
They bore not the least Resemblance to any Part of the River Mersey.