Francois Laurent d'Arlandes - I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our depart

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

- Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

topic: Silence, Departure, Might, Cried