WATERCOLOUR #17

DANGEROUS MOMENT ON GREEN MOUNTAIN

Asbury writes: "Arrived at the Narrows , we found the bank had given way and slidden down;
I proposed to work the carriage along by hand whilst Daniel Hitt led the horses. He preferred my leading, so on we went . . . but I was weak . . . and the mare ran me upon a rock; up went the wheel hanging balanced over a precipice of 50 feet . . . rocks, trees, and river . . . I felt lame by the mare's treading on my foot . . . we unhitched the beast and righted the carriage after unloading the baggage . . . Never in my life have I been in such apparent danger." 

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