Found the OG flat earth bet on a dead surveying forum — the Wallace/Hampden thing, archiving before it 404s

Was digging through a half-abandoned land-surveying BBS (the kind where the last post is from like 2009) and someone there had written up the whole 1870 Bedford wager. Saving it here cause that board is one ping away from dying. Original poster's version: a flat earther named John Hampden put up 50……