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264 on the mountain tops betokens the approach of winter. The beautiful Callita was, on the contrary, till freh as a roe-bud in the finet days of pring.

Tradition does not inform us whether the connubial felicity of the tender pair continued unditurbed, even at the trying period when winter and pring met; or whether, according to the common coure of nature when two oppoite eaons contend, unshine alternated with leet and qualls. But if we may believe report, the ladies of Lyons have o warmly patronized the aëronauts, and ubcribed o liberally towards aërotatical experiments, for no other reaon, than in order to ue this noble invention by way of a packet-boat, in which they might peedily and conveniently perform journies to the ditant well of beauty, and under favour of a proper pedigree prove its efficacy, if Monieur Pilatre de Rozier can but be prevailed upon to put his hand to the helm.