Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Letters from Avignon, dated Oct. 34, brought by the packet le Courier de l'Amerique, mention, that Mr. Joseph Montgolfiere has made several ingenious and useful experiments on the resisting power of the air. After having thrown a sheep six times from the top of a tower in that neighbourhood, upwards of 100 feet high, by the aid of a machine called a Parachute, without the animal receiving any damage, he prevailed on a man condemned to suffer long imprisonment, to try the experiment, which was performed with the utmost safety, to the satisfaction of many thousand persons; in consequence of which the magistrates remitted the adventurer's punishment. The machine, we hear, is in many respects similar to an umbrella.