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By Permission of the Authorities OF PERTH;
And under the Auspices of a Numerous and Respectable Committee of Gentlemen of the City.

MR. GREEN,
THE AERONAUT,
RESPECTFULLY informs the Inhabitants of PERTH, and its Vicinity, that he intends, on
FRIDAY FIRST, the 17th inst.
Weather permitting, to make an Ascent with his
Magnificent Balloon
FROM THE BARRACK YARD, PERTH,
Permission having been kindly granted for that purpose.

Tickets of Admission to witness this stupendous aerostatic machine, to be had at the Post-Office - at the Principle Inns - of the Gentlemen comprising the Committee - and of Mr. Green, Mrs. Leuchars' Lodgings, Atholl Street. - Persons not providing themselves with Tickets will be admitted to the Barrack Yard on payment of ONE SHILLING each.

Should the weather prove favourable, Mr. G. purposes conveying persons to a given height during the confinement of the machine by ropes.

***The Ascent will be notified by the Launching of a Pilot Balloon.

The following is extracted from the Chelmsford Newspaper of the 17th May, 1831, as being the account given by two Ladies who accompanied the Aeronaut in an excursion from that town:-

"On first leaving the place of ascent, several towns and villages were immediately presented to our view; and after having been in the air a few minutes, and Mr. Green having disencumbered the car of the grappling iron, we had to contemplate one of the most imposing views imagination can picture. The Maldon River, with all its beautiful windings, appeared like a rivulet of silver, while the ocean, illumined and gilded by the rays of the setting sun, looked like an immense sheet of polished metal. Half-an-hour had now elapsed, and a height reached, according to Mr. G.'s calculation, of rather more than a mile, without experiencing the least inconvenience; the excursion, in fact, was a series of pleasurable sensations without a moment's pause; and, so perfectly unconscious were we of any motion, that we were only aware of our descent by the earth's appearing to rise to meet us. After remaining suspended for nearly three-quarters of hour, Mr. G. allowed a small portion of the gas to escape. We were much surprised at the effect it had on the balloon, which at this moment appeared to us like a body of burnished gold; and, notwithstanding our great height, we felt so extremely warm, that we could have thrown off our shawls and bonnets. We stood up in the car to survey the surprising scene: a small cloud in the direction of the Colchester and Harwich hid those places from  view, and the smoke of London rendered that city invisible; but we saw the river Thames, the Kent Hills, and a wide extent of country in that direction, and almost all around us. When nearly over Baddow, Mr. G. directed our attention to some ponds of water, which had not the least resemblance to what they were, but looked like patches of silver in the green and brown earth. The foilage of the trees exhibited a great variety of colour, from the freshest green to deep yellow and red. One patch of trees on Danbury Park looked singularly beautiful; and some clusters that we saw resembled sea-weed of a crimson tint. 
"On crossing a pasture field, we were diverted by the appearance of a flock of sheep, whose forms to us were entirely lost, and presented no other appearance than of so many eggs on a smooth turf: horses, coaches, carts, and men, which sometimes seemed in motion, bearing a proportion according to the distance from which we viewed them. 
"The hedges everywhere could be distinctly seen; and the whole circumference looked like a garden on a great scale. 
"On nearing the earth, Mr. G. called to several persons who were beneath us, when two gentlemen on horseback leaped over the hedge and came to our assistance. We reached the ground without the least peril, and were welcomed to the house of Mr. James Bell, of Baddow; after partaking of that gentlemen's hospitality, we returned to Chelmsford with our friends, who had overtaken us with a conveyance to carry us home. We shall long remember this journey through the air with delight; and we feel particularly grateful to Mr. Green for his kindness, in permitting us to ascend with him, and for his polite attention. 
May 14, 1831 
"E. KENNETT,
"H. KENNETT."
It is Mr. G.'s intention to visit the Theatre in the Evening, on his return to Perth, after the Descent. 
PERTH: PRINTED AT THE POST-OFFICE. 
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MR. GREEN'S BALLOON. - Mr. Green ascended from Dumfries on Friday last (the first event of the kind in that town, and the Dumfries Courier says: - "The highest altitude to which the aeronaut attained was, as near as he could calculate, three-fourths of a mile, and though his flight scarcely lasted 15 minutes, he cleared in that time, counting not as crows, but as human beings travel, a distance of five and a half miles. The moment he appeared to be nearing the Crairs' heights, a simultaneous rush took place from the spot whence he ascended; various streets were emptied of their population, and the rush which ensued resembled, to some extent, the letting out of waters, from the anxiety that existed to reach a higher point of elevation. But in this many were disappointed, and it was only such as previously stood on heights that witnessed equally the ascent and descent. At the hour of ascent a shower fell, and a smarter one after Mr. Green had crossed the Craigs, which of course condensed the gas, and brought him to the ground sooner than he anticipated only a few minutes before, when he threw our ballast, and got up into an upper current, which changed almost entirely the course of the balloon, impelling it right in the direction of the sea. Mr. Green himself would have had no objections to cross the Solway, and revisit his good friends in Whitehaven; but as he knew a post chaise had been, or would be dispatched in quest of him, he felt averse, independently of other considerations, to disappoint friends somewhat nearer home. The first descent was natural and easy, and occurred at a spot called the Isle of Man Moss. The grappling iron took a firm hold of the earth, and would have enabled the voyager, with a little assistance, to finish his cruise with comparative ease; but very unfortunately a line broke, which Mr. Green uses for the purpose of shaping the balloon like a parachute when the gas becomes suddenly condensed, and thus checking the velocity of the descent. Failing in his aim, the machine presented a concavity which enabled the wind to act on it with great force; and in this manner the car was dragged along - now up, then down - and rebounding over mossy brows, after a manner very fearful to wtiness. The first persons that reached the spot seemed afraid to act, probably from the dangling of the grappling iron and car. and it was not till Mr. Green had repeatedly informed them that his life was at stake, that they enlisted their "thews and sinews" in the service of humanity. The first force applied was insufficient, and one man who by clinging to the car, was lifted at least twenty feet high, was so much astonished at his novel position, that from the moment his feet retouched the sod he declined to re-engage "in sae kittle a trade." But as the crowd swelled, a relay of hands was easily procured and in the end the mighty mass of silk was arrested, and Mr. Green rescued from his perilous berth - bruised considerably, but still able to walk without assistance, and superintend the mooring of his air-ship, its cock boat, the car, and grapple, and anchor in every sense of the word. The spot where all this occurred, and which bears no particular name, is within fifty yards of the Lochar, on the Craigs side, and very near a crazy wooden bridge leading to the Racks hamlet or village, and a moss farm named the "Auld Mill.' Thither Mr. Green proceeded, accompanied by a great crowd, and was received in the kindest manner. Mr. A. Fraser and a friend followed Mr. Green on horseback, and though their progress was impeded by the badness of the road, they were the first to greet him from the town of Dumfries. A post-chaise started shortly after, in which were Messrs. Rankine, Gergan, McDiarmid, and Mr. Green's brother, as also a trumpeter, to announce by his instrument that help was at hand. The vehicle was directed to proceed by the Isle of Man Moss, where, perhaps, chaise never penetrated before; but its progress was speedily stopped; Mr. Rankine leaped out, followed by Mr. Gregan, and was the first friend on foot who shook hands with the aeronaut. The scamper across the moss, which was most amusing, embraced a distance of two miles; and we can ourselves attest that the road is as rascally a one as ever we travelled. But a steep brae is nothing to a stout heart - and just as little a succession of bogs, brows, and ditches; and when the chaise had been ordered round to the Auld Mill, the balloon packed in a cart, and the gratifying fact ascertained that the aeronaut had sustained no serious injury, the party repaired to the farmer's spence." 
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Ticket to Witness 
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MR. GREEN'S ASCENT
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BALLOON STATISTICS. - Few people are aware of the expense of a balloon, or the tear and wear to which it is incident. The air-ship which Mr. Green launched in Dumfries is 48 feet from top to bottom, and 108 feet in circumference. When the car is attached the height is exactly 60 feet. To fill it to the bent would require 25,000 feet of gas. This, however, is rarely done, as the gas expands greatly when the air becomes rarefied, converting everything thing like slackness to a degree of tension that might lead to very dangerous results in the absence of a pilot to regulate the valve. When Mr. Green landed in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven, the lower part of the balloon had become so much collapsed that his companions thought it impossible he could re-ascend, and were only disabused of their error when he weighed anchor a second time, and "screwed the high heavens till lost in the blue." The material of the machine is composed of double sarsenet, which, even in the raw state, costs 274£. To fashion it properly requires great dexterity and art, and is withal so tedious an operation, that Mr. Green's present air-ship was more than five months on the stocks, with the carpenters working at it the whole time. But the silk must be varnished as well as sewed; the netting, which weighs about 3cwt., is composed of the finest Italian hemp; and, altogether, the cost of an airship, such as we saw here, is above 500£ sterling. A balloon, without netting, would be like a ship without a rudder, cordage, and masts. By pressing on all sides equally the netting imparts to it considerable strength, and it is by the same means that the valve ropes are worked, the car attached, and the machine kept down during the process of inflation. What is called tear and wear is constantly going forward, and every balloon that has seen much service, is as much patched as a beggar's doublet. Out of 110 ascents Mr. Green has made 65 in his present yacht, which is oftener, we suspect, than the best British bottom ever crossed the Atlantic. The time a balloon will last is not very well ascertained, as much depends on the purity of the gas, preservation from damp, and indeed the chapter of accidents generally; but if the owner has been at all active, it becomes at the end of five or seven years as crazy as a kirk condemned by a Presbytery, or a frigate stricken with a dry-rot, like Don Miguel's double deckers in the Tagus. On one occasion the gas furnished was so impure, that it required from three to four hundred yards of silk to repair the damage occasioned by singeing. It was stated last week that a heavy shower fell while Mr. Green was in the air; the spectators one and all noticed the circumstance, and one individual who pitied the aeronaut, was answered by a wag - "Him wet! how can he be wet with such a splendid umbrella over his head." This, however, is a mistake; the rain follows the form of the balloon, soaks the netting, and gushes  into the car, exactly like water from the house-tops. Repeatedly Mr. Green has been wet and dry again in the course of ten minutes, owing to sudden changes of atmosphere, and not unfrequently has been compelled to cut holes in the bottom of the car, to allow an element  a free passage that hampered him more than all the ballast he originally carried. It is a mistake to suppose that the clouds contain moisture in a state of rain, and we have Mr. Green's authority for stating, that the noise produced by rain leaving a cloud, resembles the buzzing of an immense swarm of flies and bees. This is the first part of the process of aerial distillation, and on nearing the earth, when the finer particles mix and form globules, the sound emitted resembles a shower of peas, or small stones suddenly rattled on the extensive surface of the balloon. A very beautiful phenomenon is sometimes witnessed at altitudes varying from one to two miles, viz., a fac simile of the balloon beautifully limned on the upper surface of a cloud, and invariably encircled by three irises, exhibiting all the colours of the rainbow. During his aerial excursions, Mr. Green has been accompanied by eighty persons, and has had repeatedly to use his own words, "two ladies up at a time." Whether maidens naturally lovely are rendered more angelic by soaring like the eagle in his loftiest flights, may admit of much doubt; but thus much is certain, that every lady who has courage to step into a gas-drawn chariot, gets married immediately! The greatest altitude Mr. Green ever attained was three miles 200 yards, as ascertained by a very excellent barometer. His longest flight was fifty-eight miles, performed in two hours and three quarters. In 1827 he rose from Preston, in Lancashire, and descended at Preston, in Yorkshire; and the distance, thirty-seven posting miles, was executed in twenty-seven minutes - being nearly at the rate of 100 miles per hour. - Dumfries Courier. 
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