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<DIV>I tried to do a wicked thing by trying to attach two photos in my message
to the list; anyway, for the 1816 iron bridge between Chepstow (Wales) and
England, see: <A
href="http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/592327/chepstow-iron-wye-bridge-south-wales/like">http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/592327/chepstow-iron-wye-bridge-south-wales/like</A></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 14.2pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">‘But what is this crowd gathered round the door of the
George Hotel in Chepstow?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A faint
cheer rises from the bottom of the hill.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Up comes the mail coach, horses steaming, panels mud-splashed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>‘Make way!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Make way!’ cries the ostler and the
vehicle dashes into the courtyard, pulls up sharp before the door.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Down jumps the coachman, the horses are
led off, and a fine team of spanking greys is harnessed with incredible speed in
their stead.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Upon all this –
coachman, horses, coach, and passengers – the crowd looked with gaping
admiration every Wednesday evening all through the year.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But to-day, the twelfth of March, 1852,
as the coachman settled his rug, and stretched his hands for the reins, he
observed that instead of being fixed upon him, the eyes of the people of
Chepstow darted this way and that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Heads were jerked.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Arms
flung out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here a hat swooped in a
semi-circle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Off drove the coach
almost unnoticed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As it turned the
corner all the outside passengers craned their necks, and one gentleman rose to
his feet and shouted, ‘There! there! there!’ before he was bowled into
eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was an insect – a
red-winged insect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Out the people
of Chepstow poured into the high road; down the hill they ran; always the insect
flew in front of them; at length by Chepstow Bridge a young man, throwing his
bandanna over the blade of an oar, captured it alive and presented it to a
highly respectable elderly gentleman who now came puffing upon the scene –
Samuel Budge, doctor, of Chepstow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>By Samuel Budge it was presented to Miss Ormerod; by her sent to a
professor at Oxford.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And he,
declaring it ‘a fine specimen of the rose underwinged locust’ added the
gratifying information that it ‘was the first of the kind to be captured so far
west.’<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 14.2pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoPlainText><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">‘And so, at the age of twenty-four Miss Eleanor Ormerod
was thought the proper person to receive the gift of a
locust.’</FONT></SPAN></P>
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info. on Chepstow: <A title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepstow
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepstow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepstow</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Search on: Ormerod, then link on n.62.</DIV>
<DIV>Also: <A title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Anne_Ormerod
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Anne_Ormerod">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Anne_Ormerod</A></DIV>
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<DIV>By the way, for those of you who have Vol. IV of “The Essays”, but not
(yet) Vol. VI, I draw to your attention that the text is out of order in Vol.
IV, but appears correctly in Vol. VI.</DIV>
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<DIV>For pictures of Capt Fenton’s house (see Vol. <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">IV,
p. 145 n.4, & Vol. VI, pp. 636-7)</SPAN>, see:</DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.archerandco.com/cgi-bin/view.pl?ref=ar8779
href="http://www.archerandco.com/cgi-bin/view.pl?ref=ar8779">http://www.archerandco.com/cgi-bin/view.pl?ref=ar8779</A></DIV>
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