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road is not more than twelve feet wide. A 

 lofty wall of rock bounds the road on one side, 

 and on the other is a precipice plunging almost 

 sheer down to a depth of between one hundred 

 and fifty and two hundred feet. 



*' "When Page's coach arrived at this dange- 

 rous spot, on the day in question, a lad with 

 two horses happened to be coming in the oppo- 

 site direction. Instead of retreating into one 

 of the recesses made for the purpose, while 

 the coach passed, the lad persisted in going 

 on, and drove his horses between the vehicle 

 and the cliff, one of the horses backing across 

 the road in front of the coach, the horses in 

 which took fright and fell, hanging over the 

 precipice. With great presence of mind, the 

 coachman cut the harness, and the horses, 

 thus freed, fell through the brushwood down 

 to the bottom of the precipice of which we have 

 spoken. 



" Fortunately for the occupants of the coach 

 — Messrs. Wikborg and Rattray, who were on 

 their way to George's Bay — the wheels caught 

 in a log laid on the outside edge of the road, 

 otherwise nothing could have prevented the coach 

 and passengers from following the horses in 

 their headlong fall, with what would almost 



