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stream, still sitting on his horse. He looked calmly round, as if to 

 choose the best landing place, when his horse suddenly sank, either 

 from being exhausted before he came to the top, or from the reins 

 being touched to guide him ashore. After two fearful shrieks, Mr. 

 Robinson went down. 



Captain Key, being the last on board, succeeded in jumping clear 

 of the boat as it turned over, and fortunately, being carried against the 

 chain, was able, by making use of it, to reach the shore in safety. Sir 

 George Wombwell, who may consider this as the most fortunate of his 

 many narrow escapes from death, came to the surface on the upstream 

 side of the boat, against which he was carried, and was promptly 

 rescued by Mr. Clare Vyner, though he himself was too far gone to 

 make the slightest effort to save himself, and was even unaware by 

 what means he was saved. 



In the meantime those on shore had promptly done all in their 

 power. Whips were knotted together ; but, as the river was at least 

 eighty yards from bank to bank, and those in the water were more than 

 half-way across, every endeavour to cast them within reach failed. 

 Every pole that could be found was thrown, but to no purpose. Four 

 strong swimmers tried their best in vain. One, Mr. Preston, of Moreby, 

 had not waited to take off his boots, and it was with difficulty he was 

 rescued by those on shore. Mr. Ingleby, of Ripley Castle, and Captain 

 Vyner, of Linton Spring, succeeded in reaching Mr. Lloyd, who was 

 doing his best to gain the south shore. They had brought him almost 

 in reach of those on the bank, when he suddenly sank, and they, ex- 

 hausted by the long run, the extreme coldness of the water, and the 

 force of the current, were unable to make another effort to recover him. 

 They were obliged to receive assistance from the shore to save them- 

 selves. 



Mr. Richard Thompson, of Kirby, swam off to the help of Sir 

 Charles ; but the latter being carried further away from him by the 

 current, Mr. Thompson was obliged to give up all hope of reaching 

 him, and was himself helped out by getting hold of two whips tied 

 together; one end being thrown to him from the bank. As soon as 

 he was a little recovered he ran down the bank and swam across a 

 canal to an island, where the river makes a bend, in hopes that the 

 body of Orvis, the huntsman, which was being carried down by the 

 current, might be washed within reach. Unfortunately, Orvis was 

 carried to the other shore, and the weir being only fifty yards below, 

 he could make no further effort. The two gardeners were never seen 

 alive after the boat was upset. 



Thus Yorkshire has lost by this unprecedented catastrophe Sir 

 Charles Slingsby, perhaps the best gentleman huntsman that has ever 



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