114 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



' and others passed me as well as the huntsman Orvis, 

 'in doing which the latter touched me, remarking, "This 

 ' is a run. Sir!" 



' In going on I spoke to Mr. Lloyd and also Mr. 

 ' Robinson, all full of health and jollity; and in five 

 ' minutes afterwards this band of brothers were sent "to 

 ' that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller 

 ' returns." I did not make to the place where the hounds 

 ' crossed, but direct to the ferry, being there amongst 

 ' the very first. 



'I had noted the time on finding, 12-40, and while 

 ' the fatal craft was being unmoored and brought over, 

 'I looked at my watch, 1-40, and said to those around 

 ' me, " The run was one hour to a second." It was a 

 ' sort of double ring, but the last two miles straight, 

 ' and according to the map, as near as I can calculate, 

 ' eleven or twelve miles distance. Possibly you may say, 

 '"something too much of this;" but, the belief that the 

 ' smallest incident that can be recorded of Sir Charles 

 ' during that eventful day will be read with the greatest 

 ' interest by high and low throughout the country, is, I 

 ' trust, a sufficient apology. 



' In order to give those unacquainted with the locality 

 ' an idea, I will endeavour to describe it. Opposite 

 ' Newby Hall, the seat of Lady Mary Vyner, the river 

 ' Ure runs from west to east ; the width is about sixty 

 ' yards ; the edge of the west bank very precipitous, the 

 ' depth on that day in the centre perhaps four or five 

 ' fathoms, the stream then going at a fearful rate ; the 

 ' opposite or east bank, where the boat was moored, not 

 ' being so steep. Some 300 or 400 j^ards below there is 

 ' a weir, and below that a ford, say 200 yards, then 

 ' impassable with safety. The hounds crossed between 

 ' the ferry and the weir ; over the latter every one was 

 ' washed like so many herrings, but they soon recovered, 

 ' and, true to their kind, picked up the scent on the 

 ' opposite bank, and were in full cry during the time 

 ' of the catastrophe. 



'Immediately the boat came to the. western shore it 

 ' began to fill ; and, seeing Sir Charles and Orvis coming 

 ' down the field, I said, " make way for huntsmen, and 



