Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 75 m twenty-four minutes at four starts, the wholehowever to be donewithin three-quar­ tersof an hour,whichhe accomplished on the Hampton road, on the 27th of December 1808. He ran the first mile in five minutes and a second. After waitingfive minuteshe did the second mile in five minutes and a half; and the third mile in six minutes and forty-nine seconds. Having rested twenty minutes, the captain started again, and per­ formedthe fourthmile in fiveseconds less than the time allowed. This gentlemanstands only five feet four inches, and is of thick stature. On the 21st of July 1777, Joseph Headley of Riccal nearYork,rantwo mileson Knaves- mire, in nine minutesand forty-fiveseconds, fora wagerof one hundredguineas. About a month before, he ran four miles over the sameground in twenty-oneminutes. He was allowedto be the swiftestrunner at that time in the kingdom. Joseph Beal of Welburn Moor-houses, near Castle Howard, Yorkshire, ran two miles in nine minutes and forty-eight seconds, on the K 2 York