DEER-LEAPS ti 



existed within my memory along the side of one 

 field." 



A description then follows, which shows it to 

 have resembled the " deer-leap " at Hursley Park, 

 Hants, already noticed. 



There is yet another sense in which the term 

 "deer-leap" has been used, namely, to designate 

 the spot where, on some particular occasion, an 

 extraordinary leap was made by a deer. In this 

 sense the word is used by Gilpin in his Forest 

 Scenery, who, at p. 223 of his second volume 

 (Lauder's edition), tells us: — 



" In our way to Hound's Down, we rode past a 

 celebrated spot called the 'Deer-leap.' Here a 

 stag was once shot, which, in the agony of death, 

 collecting his force, gave a bound which astonished 

 those who saw it. It was immediately com- 

 memorated by two posts, which were fixed at the 

 two extremities of the leap, where they still remain. 

 The space between them is somewhat more than 

 eighteen yards ! " 



But here surely there must be either a lapsus 

 calami or a lapsus memories. 



