TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reading edition
An Account of the Plates.
Errata.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XXXX.
CHAPTER XXXXI.
CHAPTER XXXXII.
CHAPTER XXXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXXV.
CHAPTER XXXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXXIX.
CHAPTER L.
CHAPTER LI.
CHAPTER LII.
CHAPTER LIII.
CHAPTER LIIII.
CHAPTER LV.
CHAPTER LVI.
CHAPTER LVII.
CHAPTER LVIII.
CHAPTER LIX.
CHAPTER LX.
CHAPTER LXI.
CHAPTER LXII.
CHAPTER LXIII.
CHAPTER LXIV.
CHAPTER LXV.
CHAPTER LXVI.
CHAPTER LXVII.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
CHAPTER LXIX.
CHAPTER LXX.
CHAPTER LXXI.
CHAPTER LXXII.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
CHAPTER LXXIIII.
CHAPTER LXXV.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXX.
Index
AN ACCOUNT OF THE PLATES; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THEM.
1st. An Account of the Plates.
1. (a) A Circular View from the Balloon at its greatest Elevation, (Page 58.) The Spectator is supposed to be in the Car of the Balloon, suspended above the Center of the View: looking down on the Amphitheatre or white Floor of Clouds, and seeing the City of Chester, as it appeared throu’ the Opening: which discovers the Landscape below, limited, by surrounding Vapour, to something less than two Miles in Diameter.
The Breadth of the blue Margin defines the apparent Height of the Spectator in the Balloon (viz. 4 Miles) above the white Floor of Clouds, as he hangs in the Center, and looks horizontally round, into the azure Sky.
2. (b) The Balloon over Helsbye-Hill in Cheshire, at half past II. on Thursday the 8th of September, 1785. (Page 78.)
It is seen in the South-west-Quarter.
The View was taken in a high Field, at the End of Sutton-Causeway.
Helsbye-Hill, tho’ upwards of 600 Feet high, appeared from the Car of the Balloon, to be on the same Level with the Grounds below.
3. (c) A Balloon-Prospect from above the Clouds, (Page 154,) or Chromatic View of the Country between Chester, Warrington and Rixton-Moss in Lancashire: shewing the whole Extent of the aërial Voyage; with the meandering Track of the Balloon throu’ the Air.
4. The Explanatory Print (d), (Page 155:) which elucidates the former by giving the Names of the principal Places mentioned in the Excursion.
N. B. The Circular View is seen to the best Advantage, when placed flat on a Table or Chair, and rather in the Shade: the Eye looking directly down upon the Picture.
Whoever will be at the Trouble of viewing distinct Parts of the Balloon-Prospect, throu’ a very small Opening, made by rolling a Sheet of Paper into the Form of a hollow Tube, and applying it close to either Eye, at the same Time shutting the other; or by looking throu’ the Hand, held a little open, and close to the Eye; may form a very accurate Idea of the Manner, in which the Prospect below was represented gradually in Succession, to the Aironaut; whose Sight was bounded by a Circularity of Vapour, as in Section 79, 221.
2d. Directions for placing them.
Place the Top of the circular view, even with the Top of the Page.
The Plate will then lye over at the Bottom, and at the right Side of the Page.
Fold the Bottom up into the Book, even with the Margin: and the right Side in like Manner.
Observe to place the Bottom of each of the other Plates, even with the Bottom of the Page.
The Plate will then lye over at the Top, and at the right Side of the Page.
Fold the Top down, into the Book, even with the Margin: and the right Side, in like Manner.
The circular View, to face Page 58.
The Balloon over Helsbye-Hill, to face Page 78.
The Balloon Prospect, to face Page 154.
The explanatory Print, to be placed on Page 155: and, when unfolded, to be seen along with the Balloon-Prospect.