Pedestrianism

84 MODERN PEDE8TRIANISM. in fourteen hours, on Friday the 9th Novem­ ber 1804. A single mile of the race-course at Ipswich was measured off, andhe started at two o'clock in the morning. He went the firstseventeenmiles at the rate of nearly six miles an hour, when he refreshed. He then went off in good style, and did thirty-two miles, including the stoppage, in six hours. He halted here for some time, having been rubbeddown withhot towels, his feet soaked in warm water, and his bodybathed all over with spirits. He shiftedhis clothes andbreak­ fasted. He again started about twenty mi­ nutes before nine, to perform the remaining twenty-eight miles. He went twelve miles farther, whenhe haltedfor a fewseconds,and ate a piece of breadsteepedin Madeira. This stage was finished in about threehours,which left him fourhours anda half to the lastsix­ teen miles. He stopt once more at the end of ten miles, and took a small piece of bread as before. He hadnowonly six miles to go, whichhe did in one hourand forty-eight mi­ nutes.