on the mountain tops betokens the approach of winter. The beautiful Calliſta was, on the contrary, ſtill freſh as a roſe-bud in the fineſt days of ſpring.
Tradition does not inform us whether the connubial felicity of the tender pair continued undiſturbed, even at the trying period when winter and ſpring met; or whether, according to the common courſe of nature when two oppoſite ſeaſons contend, ſunshine alternated with ſleet and ſqualls. But if we may believe report, the ladies of Lyons have ſo warmly patronized the aëronauts, and ſubſcribed ſo liberally towards aëroſtatical experiments, for no other reaſon, than in order to uſe this noble invention by way of a packet-boat, in which they might ſpeedily and conveniently perform journies to the diſtant well of beauty, and under favour of a proper pedigree prove its efficacy, if Monſieur Pilatre de Rozier can but be prevailed upon to put his hand to the helm.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
