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 commemorated 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.
GILPIN’S “_New Forest_.”