A Voyage In A Balloon

My Ascension at Frankfort—The Balloon, the Gas, the Apparatus, the Ballast—An
Unexpected Travelling Companion—Conversation in the Air—Anecdotes—At 800
Metres —The Portfolio of the Pale Young Man—Pictures and Caricatures—Des Rosiers
and d'Arlandes—At 1200 Metres—Atmospheric Phenomena—The Philosopher
Charles—Systems—Blanchard—Guyton-Morveaux—M. Julien—M. Petin—At 1500
Metres—The Storm—Great Personages in Balloons—The Valve—The Curious
Animals—The Aerial Ship—Game of Balloons.
In the month of September, 1850, I arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. My passage
through the principal cities of Germany, had been brilliantly marked by aerostatic
ascensions; but, up to this day, no inhabitant of the Confederation had accompanied
me, and the successful experiments at Paris of Messrs. Green, Godard, and Poitevin,
had failed to induce the grave Germans to attempt aerial voyages.