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THE BALLOON-HOAX
[Astounding News by Express, via Norfolk!--The Atlantic
crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying
Machine!--Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charlestown, S.C., of
Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth,
and four others, in the Steering Balloon, "Victoria," after a passage
of Seventy-five Hours from Land to Land! Full Particulars of the
Voyage!
The subjoined jeu d'esprit with the preceding heading in
magnificent capitals, well interspersed with notes of admiration, was
originally published, as matter of fact, in the "New York Sun," a
daily newspaper, and therein fully subserved the purpose of creating
indigestible aliment for the quidnuncs during the few hours
intervening between a couple of the Charleston mails. The rush for
the "sole paper which had the news," was something beyond even the
prodigious; and, in fact, if (as some assert) the "Victoria" did
not absolutely accomplish the voyage recorded, it will be difficult
to assign a reason why she should not have accomplished it.]
THE great problem is at length solved! The air, as well as the earth
and the ocean, has been subdued by science, and will become a common and
convenient highway for mankind. The Atlantic has been actually crossed
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