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These regular interruptions to my slumber caused me even less discomfort than I had anticipated ; and when I finally arose for the day , it was seven o'clock , and the sun had attained many degrees above the line of my horizon . We believe there are very many , in Virginia especially , who will be able to identify the letters of this divine , contained [ column 2 :] in the present volume , with the voice , the manner , and personal appearance of the man himself - - and upon all such Mr. Maxwell has conferred an obligation of no common kind . When I afterwards had time for reflection , I did not fail to attribute the extreme violence of the explosion , as regarded myself , to its proper cause — my situation directly above it , and in the line of its greatest power . Such a work to the man of business , and to the traveller , and indeed to the general reader , s invaluable , and we heartily recommend it to public patronage . The parvenu , who had been induced by my artifices in the early part of the evening to drink deeply , now shuffled , dealt , or played , with a wild nervousness of manner for which his intoxication , I thought , might partially , but could not altogether account . I now too late discovered the great rashness of which I had been guilty in discharging the ballast , and my agitation was excessive . We found that families who had come to some personal decisions about being ready to adopt wanted someone on the other end of the line to be warm , comforting and helpful . Had the balloon remained a very short while longer within the cloud — that is to say , had not the inconvenience of getting wet , determined me to discharge the ballast — my destruction might , and probably would , have been the consequence . Appended are also a catalogue of the engravings , and a tabular view of the classification of animals adopted by Cuvier in his " Regne Animal " with examples included .