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When the balloon had reached an elevation of about 2,500 yards, / Lieutenant Procope determined to maintain it at that level. A wire-work / stove, suspended below the casing, and filled with lighted hay, served / to keep the air in the interior at a proper temperature.
Beneath their feet was extended the basin of the Gallian Sea. An / inconsiderable speck to the north marked the site of Gourbi Island. / Ceuta and Gibraltar, which might have been expected in the west, had / utterly disappeared. On the south rose the volcano, the extremity of the / promontory that jutted out from the continent that formed the framework / of the sea; whilst in every direction the strange soil, with its / commixture of tellurium and gold, gleamed under the sun's rays with a / perpetual iridescence.