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THE Times published on September 29 a short extract from the Bermuda Royal Gazette, communicated by me, describing the appearance of a balloon, passing over Bermuda on August 27, and which I suggested might be one of those which ascended this year in England or France, and had not been subsequently heard of. This was followed by a letter from Mr. Charles Harding, F.R.Met.Soc., commenting on the “extreme improbability” of a balloon crossing the Atlantic, and even adding that “a little practical experience in ballooning suggests it to be thoroughly impossible.”
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LEFROY, J. A Stray Balloon. Nature 33, 99–100 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033099d0
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