Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge.  Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge shown below:

My efforts were so far crowned with success, that
I soon found I could guide an air-balloon in every
horozontal direction, and could mount to every possible
height, suspending it there, and descending at pleasure.

Mary Hamilton, “A Manuscript.”  England,1784. Osborn fc137, [p. 1].