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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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On May 23, Madame Garnerin and a Russian lady ascended in a balloon from Moscow amid a thunderstorm, reaching 5500 feet before a hazardous descent 20 versts away; the Russian lady suffered a severe contusion from hitting a tree, and they discarded instruments due to rain weight.
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On the 23d May, Madame Garnerin, with a Russian Lady, ascended in a Balloon, at Moscow. These Ladies did not desist from their bold enterprise, though at the instant a thunder storm, with hail and lightning, made it very hazardous. A quarter before eight o'clock in the evening, they ascended 5500 feet. They heard in the air thundering every where round them, and felt the effect of the electric fluid in the atmosphere, which was full of clouds and rain, and agitated by wind. They descended twenty versts from Moscow, not without great danger; the Russian Lady received a severe contusion, by coming against a tree. As the balloon was become very heavy from the rain, the female aeronauts had been obliged to throw away all their instruments, even the parachute, and when they touched the ground, only ten pounds of ballast remained.
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Moscow
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23d May
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russian lady received a severe contusion by coming against a tree; descended safely but with great danger after discarding instruments and parachute due to rain weight, with only ten pounds of ballast remaining.
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Madame Garnerin and a Russian Lady ascended in a balloon at Moscow despite a thunderstorm with hail and lightning. They rose a quarter before eight o'clock in the evening to 5500 feet, hearing thunder around them and feeling electric effects in the cloudy, rainy, windy atmosphere. They descended twenty versts from Moscow.