Astounding News by Express, Norfolk! -- The Atlantic
Crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr Monck Mason's Flying
Machine! -- Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, S.C., of
Mr Mason, Mr Robert Holland, Mr Henson, Mr Harrison Ainsworth, and
four others, in the Steering Balloon, , after a passage
of Seventy-five hours from Land to Land! Full Particulars of the
Voyage!
The subjoined with the preceding heading in
magnificent capitals, well interspersed with notes of admiration,
was originally published, as matter of fact, in the, a daily newspaper, and therein fully subserved the purpose of
creating indigestible aliment for the 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 not absolutely accomplish the voyage recorded, it
will be difficult to assign a reason why she 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. and this too without
difficulty--without any great apparent danger--with thorough
control of the machine--and in the inconceivably brief period of
seventy-five hours from shore to shore! By the energy of an agent
at Charleston, S.C., we are enabled to be the first to furnish the
public with a detailed
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