Sunday, October 2, 1831 Travel Journal
1831
October
Sunday 2
Breakfast at 9 1/4 –
Church at 10 1/2 – Isaiah
xvi.3. 1/2 hour –
Off at 12 3/4 in 8 minutes from
the end of the Service –
Evergreen hedges – sod walls covered
with nicely clipt whins –
At Bournemouth at 1 25/60 –
Stopt 3 or 4 minutes to give the horses water – Tired – Thought they would have
gibbed down the hill – Had not got 1/2 mile farther before impossible to get
the horses on – Fought with them 20 minutes above 1/4 hour, then sent off to Christchurch for a pair of
leaders at 1 55/.. –
A few drops of rain –Off again
in 1 1/4 hour –
WYAS Finding Number SH/ML/TR/11/0013
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