One of the most eminent balloonists of modern times, Mr. James Glaisher, was many times in danger of losing his life whilst in pursuit of knowledge miles above the earth.

One of many similar balloons used to direct the fire of artillery and observe the movements of the enemy, a service of considerable danger as the balloonists are constantly exposed to airplane attack.

No Martial balloonist, much less any Martial mountain-climber, has ever, save once, reached a greater height than 16,000 feetthe air at the sea-level being scarcely more dense than ours at 10,000 feet.

"It will be among the most memorable incidents of my reign that I welcome to my Court the first visitor from another world, or," he added, after a sudden pause, and with an inflection of unmistakable irony in his tone, "the first who has descended to our world from a height to which no balloon could reach and at which no balloonist could live.

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The former considered humanity as a balloonist surveys a throng,immediately and without perspective,but the latter always sees mankind through the frame of his family.

But, uncomfortable as he was, and much as he felt like a seasick balloonist, he did not know in what a lucky position he was, nor how happy he should have been that it was not even riskier.

Castaways of the stratosphere; or, Hunting the vanished balloonists, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

Castaways of the stratosphere; or, Hunting the vanished balloonists, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

Moreover, the volume of our sensible universe embraced in the clairvoyant's field of view will increase in the same way that a balloonist's view increases in area as he rises above the surface of the earth.

Although nesting on the ground it soars high into the sky for the purpose of leading aviators and balloonists away from its young.