BOSTON'S FIRST AERONAUT.; DR. JEFFRIES'S VENTURE--ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN 1785.
The ballooning festival held at Guienne on Monday and Tuesday, the 25th and 26th of last month, was in honor of Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries who, on the 7th of January, 1785, crossed the English Channel in a balloon. In the January number of the Magazine of American History Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston, a descendant of Dr. Jeffries, presents an interesting account of this event.
July 10, 1885
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