Pedestrianism

modern pedestrianism. '/s In the year 1771, Chr. Orton ran from Middleham to Richmond, Yorkshire, in fifty- seven minutes. The distanceis ten computed miles; the roadremarkably hilly ; andseveral horses were much distressed to keep up with him. On the 13thof July 1793, JohnBarrett ran ten miles on Kersal Moor, near Manchesterj for a wager of twenty guineas, against Henry Wilkinson, from Warrington in Lancashire, and beat him with e^se, performing the dis­ tance in fifty-seven minutes. He also, in the month of August following, beat Wilson of Tenterden in Kent, on Barham Downs, in a match of five miles, which he accomplished in twenty-seven minutes and nine seconds. Mr. Haselden of Milton, in August 1809^ undertook to go ten miles within an hour, which he performed on the Canterbury road, between Key Street andChalkwell, with con­ siderable ease, in fifty-three minutes ;—and Mr. O'Callagan ran the same number ofmiles on the Edgeware road, near the village of K Kilburn^