Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature. a Melange of Excerpta
Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature. a Melange of Excerpta
Charles C Charles Carroll Bombaugh
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Some years ago. Lord James Cavendish rode from Hyde Park Comer to Windsor Lodge, which is upwards of twenty miles, in less than an hour. Sir Robert Cary rode nearly three hundred miles in less than three days, when he went from London to Edinburgh to inform King James of the death of Queen Elizabeth. He had several falls and sore bruises on the road, which occasioned his going battered and bloody into the royal presence. 420 THE FANCIES OP PACT. Oq the 29th of August, 1750, was decided at Newma...rket a remarkable wager for one thousand guineas, laid bj Theobald Taaf, Esq., against the Earl of March and Lord Eglinton, who were to provide a four-wheel carriage with a man in it, to be drawn by four horses nineteen miles in an hour. The match was performed in fifty-three minutes and twenty-four seconds. A.n engraved model of the carriage was formerly sold in the print-shops. The Marquis de la Fayette rode in August, 1778, from Bhode Island to Boston, nearly seventy miles distant, in seven hours, and returned in six and a half.
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