Pedestrianism

114 capt. Barclay's performances. hundred miles in nineteen hours, over the worst road in the kingdom, and just at the break of a severestorm. He started fromUry to go to Crathynaird, andback. He went to Charlton of Aboyne, (twenty-eightmiles) in four hours, where he stopped ten minutes; thenwent forward to Crathynaird,(twenty-two miles,) where he remainedfiftyminutes. He then returned to Charlton,wherehe refreshed for thirtyminutes, whenhe proceeded to Ury, andcompleted the wholedistance in nineteen hours. Exclusiveof stoppages, the distance Was performedin seventeenhours and a half, or at the rate of aboutfive miles and three- quarterseach hour, on the average. Gapt. Barclaywas attendedin this walk by his servant,William Cross,whoalso performed the distance in the same time. In the month of December1808, Crosswalked one hundred miles in nineteenhoursand seventeenminute§ iin the Aberdeenroad,nearStonehaven. He standsfive feet and eight inches, is wellmade, and active, andmay be considereda first-rate pedestrian, » v In May next year, (1807,) Capt. Barclay walked