ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 87 



On the morning of the 6th inllant, the 

 weather intenfely cold, the ground covered 

 with ice or frozen fnow, as I may fay, pre- 

 cifely at the hour of eight, A. M. as Mary 

 Jenkins (who Uves as fervant at the Fox and 

 Crown public-houfe, jufh on the brow of 

 Highgate Hill), a young woman about nine- 

 teen years of age, of a freih complexion and 

 fanguine habit, was lying awake in her bed 

 (Reaumur's Thermometer then ftanding at 

 only and Fahrenheit's at ), Hie 



heard a fliout of an uncommon kindj and 

 running to the window, the following phas- 

 nomenon prefented itfelf to her view. A 

 man, dreft much after the manner of the 

 Englifh, but of a iierce and terrifying afpedl^ 

 feem'd to pafs the Fox like lightning, mount- 

 ed on fome thing like a horfe ; but fuch a 

 one as ihe had never before feen -, having the 

 head, neck, and fore-legs of thofe of this 

 country ; faving that the legs were flretch'd 

 out and void of motion; he was furnifh'd 

 with a pair of wings, and his hind parts de- 

 fcended from his head obliquely to the ground. 



She 



