A caret (^) indicates the following character or characters were printed in superscript. Some superscripts were silently converted to regular characters (i.e. 27th instead of 27^th). Except for the following corrections, the original text and punctuation remain unchanged: p. 7, Added a missing comma after "Sir" at the beginning of the letter "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every other letter; p. 7, added missing "t" to "than" in "more satisfactory than anything"; p. 9, "Procés verbal" corrected to "Procès verbal"; p. 11, added a missing comma after "Robert" in "Mess^rs. Robert, two Brothers,"; p. 11, "Aiant encor dans leur Galerie le deux tiers de leur Approvissonement." was corrected to "... les deux tiers de leur Approvisionement." "Aiant encor" might be "Ayant encore", as printed in the "Journal des sçavans" of January 1784, but was not corrected here; p. 14, "Carr" corrected to "Car" in "on both Sides their Car,"; p. 16, removed a space after "d'" in "Beaucoup d'habitants"; p. 16, "Bart." corrected to "Bar^t." in "Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bar^t."; p. 17, "Sept. 2d" corrected to "Sept. 2^d", for 2nd. The following possible mispellings have been retained: p. 6, "M. Pilatre du Rozier" should be "M. Pilâtre de Rozier"; p. 10, "chearfully" is possibly an older spelling for "cheerfully"; p. 16, there are several missing accents that might have been in the original French document, in "desorientés", "operation", "dejà", "depart", "detaché" and "extremités". There are two occurences of "&c" for "&c." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons, by Abbott Lawrence Rotch and Benjamin Franklin