Part 1724 of 4150 from book5
Threebook28 hours later the doctors prediction was fully verified. I exaggerate nothing continued Ferguson for upon reading the narratives of such travellers as havebook15 had the hardihood to venture into these regions your eyes would fill with tears. Besides the dilation of the hydrogen involved no danger and only threefourths of the vast capacity of the balloon was filled when the barometer by a depression of eight inches announced an elevation of six thousand feet. Respirable air was wanting. Kennedy no longer felt a single shiver of the fever but partook of some breakfast with an excellent appetite.... more