Make a balloon, by pasting together gores of bank post paper; paste
the lower ends round a slender hoop, from which proceed several wires,
terminating in a kind of basket, sufficiently strong to support a
sponge dipped in spirit of wine. When the spirit is set on fire, its
combustion will produce a much greater degree of heat than any ordinary
flame: and by thus rarefying the air within the balloon, will enable it
to rise with great rapidity, to a considerable height.