152 COBOURG. 



they being all very fresh, I fancied they 

 would like a gallop ; so after leaving 

 the village, going down the little descent 

 that opens on to the Wash, I, as the 

 term is, " sprung 'em." 



I was perhaps in the middle of the 

 road, and the fence on my off-side being 

 very high, I did not observe the Man- 

 chester " Cobourg" coming round the 

 corner, at about eight or nine miles an 

 hour I going about double that pace. 

 Just before we got to the turn, we met : 

 my leaders flew out of the road at the 

 instant, over a small ditch on to a bank, 

 where was a lodge with a white gate 

 leading to a residence then occupied by 

 the Duke of Leeds. The carriage-road 

 extended from the lodge into the turn- 

 pike, and was marked by two white 

 posts. Inside the first my horses passed, 

 but the sudden jerk in crossing the ditch 

 threw me off, and I lay on my back in 



