disagreeable; then the speed of the balloon is so much greater--and it
would puzzle Professor Leslie to demonstrate that its motions are more
unsteady; besideswho ever heard of sea-sickness in a balloon? the
consideration of which alone wouldto any reasonable person actually
suffering under the pains of that calamitybe deemed more than an
equivalent for all the little fractional difference of danger between the two
modes of travelling. I shall henceforth regard it as a fine characteristic
trait of our national prudencethatin their journies to France and Flanders
the Scottish witches always went by air on broom-sticks and benweeds
instead of venturing by water in sieveslike those of England. But the
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English are under the influence of a maritime genius.
When we had got as far up the Thames as Gravesendthe wind and
tide came against usso that the vessel was obliged to anchorand I
availed myself of the circumstanceto induce the family to disembark and
go to London by LAND; and I esteem it a fortunate circumstance that we
did sothe dayfor the seasonbeing uncommonly fine. After we had
taken some refreshmentI procured places in a stage-coach for my mother
and sisterandwit
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