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The great problem is at length solved! The air, as well as the
earth and the ocean, has been subdued by science, and will become
a common and convenient highway for mankind. The Atlantic has
been actually crossed in a Balloon! and this too without
difficulty — without any great apparent danger — with thorough
control of the machine — and in the inconceivably brief period of
seventy-five hours from shore to shore! By the energy of an agent
at Charleston, S.C., we are enabled to be the first to furnish the
public with a detailed account of this most extraordinary voyage,
which was performed between Saturday, the 6th instant, at 11 A.M.,
and 2 P.M., on Tuesday, the 9th instant, by Sir Everard Bringhurst;
Mr Osborne, a nephew of Lord Bentinck's; Mr Monck Mason and Mr
Robert Holland, the well-known aeronauts; Mr Harrison Ainsworth,
author of Jack Shepherd, etc.; and Mr Henson, the projector of
the late unsuccessful flying machine — with two seamen from
Woolwich — in all, eight persons. The particulars furnished
below may be relied on as authentic and accurate in every respect,
as, with a slight exception, they are copied verbatim from the
joint diaries of Mr Monck Mason and Mr Harrison Ainsworth, to whose
politeness our agent is indebted for much verbal information
respecting the balloon itself, its construction, and other matters
of interest. The only alteration in the MS received, has been made
for the purpose of throwing the hurried account of our agent, Mr
Forsyth, into a connected and intelligible form.
