But while so many catastrophes were taking plabsp;on land and at a, a drama not less exg was being enacted in the agitated air.
In fabsp;a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the cirg movement of a n of air and had traverd spabsp;at the rate of y miles an hour, turning round and round as if ized by some aerial maelstrom.
Beh the lower point of the balloon swung a car, taining five pasngers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thibsp;vapor mingled with spray whibsp;hung over the surfabsp;of the o.
Whenbsp;it may be asked, had e that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it ri? It surely could not have started during the storm. But the storm had raged five days already, and the first symptoms were maed on the 18th. It ot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distanbsp;for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
At any rate the pasngers, destitute of all marks for their guidanbsp;could not have possd the means of reing the route traverd sinbsp;their departure. It was a remarkable fabsp;that, although in the very midst of the furious tempest, they did not suffer from it. They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being nsible that they were removed from a horizontal position.
But while so many catastrophes were taking plabsp;on land and at a, a drama not less exg was being enacted in the agitated air.
In fabsp;a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the cirg movement of a n of air and had traverd spabsp;at the rate of y miles an hour, turning round and round as if ized by some aerial maelstrom.
Beh the lower point of the balloon swung a car, taining five pasngers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thibsp;vapor mingled with spray whibsp;hung over the surfabsp;of the o.
Whenbsp;it may be asked, had e that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it ri? It surely could not have started during the storm. But the storm had raged five days already, and the first symptoms were maed on the 18th. It ot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distanbsp;for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
At any rate the pasngers, destitute of all marks for their guidanbsp;could not have possd the means of reing the route traverd sinbsp;their departure. It was a remarkable fabsp;that, although in the very midst of the furious tempest, they did not suffer from it. They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being nsible that they were removed from a horizontal position.