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Come back now , that 's a darlint , and I 'll give ye yur flipper . I then took opportunities of conveying by night , to a retired situation east of Rotterdam , five iron-bound casks , to contain about fifty gallons each , and one of a larger size ; six tin tubes , three inches in diameter , properly shaped , and ten feet in length ; a quantity of a particular metallic substance , or semi-metal which I shall not name , and a dozen demijohns of a very common acid . The consideration of this dilemma gave me no little disquietude ; and it will hardly be believed , that , after the dangers I had undergone , I should look upon this business in so serious a light , as to give up all hope of accomplishing my ultimate design , and finally make up my mind to the necessity of a descent . Should the kittens be found to suffer uneasiness in an equal degree with their mother , I must consider my theory in fault , but a failure to do so I should look upon as a strong confirmation of my idea . 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 . Accordingly , in less than a second , I felt all the blood in my body rushing to my temples , and , immediately thereupon , a concussion , which I shall never forget , burst abruptly through the night , and seemed to rip [ page 12 :] the very firmament asunder . Indeed , had the car and contents been three times heavier than they were , I should not have been at all uneasy . I now considered that , provided in my passage I found the medium I had imagined , and provided it should prove to be essentially what we denominate atmospheric air , it could make comparatively little difference at what extreme state of rarefaction I should discover it — that is to say , in regard to my power of ascending — for the gas in the balloon would not only be itself subject to similar rarefaction , ( in proportion to the occurrence of which , I could suffer an escape of so much as would be requisite to prevent explosion , ) but , being what it was , would , at all events , continue specifically lighter than any compound whatever of mere nitrogen and oxygen . Could he , for an instant , have supposed that , in my admonisher at Eton , in the destroyer of my honor at Oxford , in him who thwarted my ambition at Rome , my revenge in Paris , my passionate love at Naples , or what he falsely termed my avarice in Egypt , that in this , my arch-enemy and evil genius , I could fail to recognise the William Wilson of my schoolboy days , the namesake , the companion , the rival , the hatred and dreaded rival at Dr. Bransby 's ? This the faint light enabled me to perceive — but the features of his face I could not distinguish . I determined to depart , yet live — to leave the world , yet continue to exist — in short , to drop enigmas , I resolved , let what would ensue , to force a passage , if I could , to the moon . I 'll ask that you proceed in the order that I introduced you ; first of all , Dr. Takeyh , then Secretary Carter and then Ambassador Indyk . Obviously , all measurement of this kind is highly imperfect , but with this caveat I 'll plunge ahead and try to give what I see as our core results in this area . Mr. Chairman , with your leave , I 'd like to just make one or two points about each of these options and then I 'm prepared to discuss all of them in more detail , as does the report I referenced earlier . only too real — I shall be pardoned for seeking relief , however slight and temporary , in the weakness of a few rambling details .