Pedestrianism

122 CAPT. BARCLAY'S PERFORMANCESr at a: ball during the night, and returned to Ury by seven in the morning. He did not yet retire to bed, but occupied the day by partridge-shootingin the fields. He hadthus travellednot less thanone hundredandthirty miles, supposinghim to have gone only eight miles in the course of the day's shooting at home, and also danced at Laurence-kirk, withoutsleeping, or having been in bed for two nights andnearly threedays. In December following, he was matched againsta runnerof the Duke of Gordon, to go from Gordon Castle to Huntly Lodge, a distanceof nineteen miles, whichCapt. Bar­ clay performed in two hours and eight mi­ nutes, withoutany previouspreparation, and immediatelyafterbreakfast,beatingthe duke's man five miles. He ran the first ninemiles in fifty minutes, althoughthe roadwas very hilly, and extremelybad. In October this year, (1808,) Capt.Barclay madea match withMr.Wedderburn Webster, a gentlemanof celebrityin the sportingworld, which attractedthe notice of the wholeking­ dom,