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It should be remembered , however , that when I fell , in the first instance , from the car , if I had fallen with my face turned toward the balloon , instead of turned outwardly from it as it actually was — or if , in the second place , the cord by which I was suspended [ page 14 :] had chanced to hang over the upper edge , instead of through a crevice near the bottom of the car — I say it may readily be conceived that , in either of these supposed cases , I should have been unable to accomplish even as much as I had now accomplished , and the disclosures now made would have been utterly lost to posterity . On the other hand , I was not aware that , in any recorded ascension , a diminution had been proved to be apparent in the absolute rate of ascent ; although such should have been the case , if on account of nothing else , on account of the escape of gas through balloons ill-constructed , and varnished with no better material than the ordinary varnish . Kollek , like Robert Moses , was vilified by those who thought that his building went too far . The balloon at first collapsed , then furiously expanded , then whirled round and round with sickening velocity , and finally , reeling and staggering like a drunken man , hurled me over the rim of the car , and left me dangling , at a terrific height , with my head downward , and my face outward , by a piece of slender cord about three feet in length , which hung accidentally through a crevice near the bottom of the wicker-work , and in which , as I fell , my left foot became most providentially entangled . Having thus inserted a portion of the cloth forming the upper part of the bag , I refastened the loops — not to the hoop , for that would have been impossible , since the cloth now intervened , — but to a series of large buttons , affixed to the cloth itself , about three feet below the mouth of the bag ; the intervals between the buttons having been made to correspond to the intervals between the loops . AFTER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago , to say nothing of the summary in ' Silliman 's Journal , ' with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury , it will not be supposed , of course , that in offering a few hurried remarks in reference to Von Kempelen 's discovery , I have any design to look at the subject in a scientific point of view . Unless for default of this renovation , I could see no reason , therefore , why life could not be sustained even in a vacuum ; for the expansion and compression of chest , commonly called breathing , is action purely muscular , and the cause , not the effect , of respiration . Besides , although I was evidently approaching the surface below me , it was with a speed by no means commensurate with the velocity I had at first conceived . By twelve o'clock the circular centre had materially decreased in circumference , and by seven , P. M ., I lost sight of it entirely ; the balloon passing over the western limb of the ice , and floating away rapidly in the direction of the equator . Once they got into the system and started completing the forms and going through the training , we found for the most part that they thought the training was excellent , very helpful . Von Kempelen , however , is by no means ' a misanthrope , ' in appearance , at least , whatever he may be in fact . In fact , amazement must have fairly deprived me of my senses , when I could not see the vast difference , in appearance , between the surface below me , and the surface of my mother earth . Are those forces pitted in this vicious daily struggle of sectarian warfare going to be deterred by several thousand more American soldiers ? Signor 's narrative depends upon a very important fact , of which the reader is kept in ignorance until near the end of the book . Veterans must wait from six months to two years to begin receiving the money that is due to them while the agency plods through paperwork . My bed was so contrived upon the floor of the car , as to bring my head , in lying down , immediately below the mouth of the pitcher . The debates are no longer , frankly , between pragmatists , such as Ayatollah Rafsanjani , and the more austere reactionaries , and Iran no longer views its international relations through the prism of strategic or economic vulnerability . Below me in the ocean lay a cluster of black specks , which undoubtedly were islands .