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injuries, one dying at Galashiels from the 

 effect of the injuries he sustained. 



About nine o'clock the same night the North 

 Briton coach was approaching Chorley, in 

 Lancashire. The coach was meeting some 

 waofo^ons, and was followed bv a number of 

 carts. The coachman, to escape the waggons, 

 drew on the opposite side, and, owing to the 

 mist, went too far, and plunged the vehicle 

 down a precipice. One man was killed on the 

 spot. 



During the floods in Scotland, in 1829, the 

 coast mail-coach, having left Fochabers at 

 four P.M., got forward, without any interruption, 

 to the Spey, where, in consequence of the 

 boisterous rapidity of the torrent, sweeping 

 alono- with it corn and wood in oreat abun- 

 dance, the boatmen were with difficulty 

 prevailed on to ferry the guard across. 

 They stated their determination not to ven- 

 ture aoain while the current remained so strong^. 

 (Since that period a substantial bridge has 

 been thrown over the Spey.) On his way to 

 the Findhorn the guard of the mail-coach called 

 on Mr. Davison, who resides about two miles 

 to the eastward of that river. He accompanied 



