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II. BEING detained in England by unavoidable circumstances o^ for some time longer than? expected, I will try to give the British public an adequate view of the action of our French Institute in the matter of balloon navigation; and will confine my criticism to an exposition of M. Dupuy de Lome's own views, which were supported \by the Government, so far as to give to this learned man a credit of nearly 2,000/. for the construction of his balloon. Perhaps the observations I have published in the Liberie and offered to some of his assistants in private conferences, have produced some alteration in the original scheme. It is a matter of which "I cannot be made aware by any means, and J. must“suppose things to be as they were when I left Paris in my own balloon.
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DE FONVIELLE, W. Balloon Ascents for Military Purposes . Nature 3, 134–135 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003134a0
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