From the print: "Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin in Mr. Lunardi's balloon, from St. George's Fields, June 29th, 1785; at 25 minutes after one o'clock, and descended a few miles beyond Harrow in Middlesex, at three o'clock, after traversing upwards of thirty miles in the atmosphere."
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