Downstream

‘shot under Old Kew-bridge,
laughing and keeping up an
animated conversation with
her friends’. An enormous
crowd welcomed her at
Richmond as she ‘floated
under the picturesque bridge’
where she ‘went through
numerous elegant evolutions
in the water that were greatly
applauded’. It was then back
to Mortlake where she was
greeted with the sort of
enthusiasm ‘this young water-