The Count de la Vaulx has not been equally successful in his attempt to journey from France to the West Coast of Africa by this novel method. After waiting for several days for a favourable wind he made the attempt Inst Monday for the second time, but again met with failure owing to the wind, which persistently blew him back to the French coast. It seems that if ballooning is to be of any use as a means of transit' some means must be found by which the air-ship is independent of the wind. Mr. Spencer's is propelled by a Simmis petrol motor which causes the pro-ler to revolve 258 times a minutes, this evidently leaves much to be desired if one is to go where one will, when one will, the ultimate ambition of aeronauts.
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