^{page 218 note 1} Mr. J. B. Martin, President of the London Athletic Club, who was present when this paper was read at a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, has since informed me that 29 ft. 7 in. were cleared by a running jump at Chester in 1854, and 13 ft. 7 in. by a standing jump at Manchester in 1875, 5 lb. weights (ἁλτῆρες) being used in the first case and 23 lb. weights in the second. He also makes the somewhat bold suggestion that the may have been the Hop Step and Jump. He gives the best on record (without weights) as 49 ft. 3 in. (done at Harwich in 1861). This would approach the performance attributed to Phaÿllus. 40 ft. 2 in. were cleared in this contest, without a run, in 1865.

Mr. Martin adds: ‘It has recently become a practice to place a handkerchief or piece of paper as a mark to be jumped at.’

Mr. Gardner has now shown me a vase in the British Museum on which he has just discovered three marks, plainly representing the behind a leaper in the act of alighting. See cut opposite.

^{page 218 note 2} Mr. Gardner refers to this vase as giving the attitudes of the athletes in action. But if the leap was taken standing, surely the leaper's feet would be together. And the disk-thrower does not ‘frame’ like Myron's.

^{page 220 note 1} To prevent misconception of my meaning I will add that I translate the passage (Nem. vii. 70–73) thus: ‘I swear that without overstepping the bound I have sent forth the swift speech of my tongue as it were a bronze-headed javelin, such as saveth from the wrestling the strong neck sweatless yet, or ever the limbs be plunged in the sun's fire.’