Pedestrianism

capt. Barclay's performances. 115 "walkedseventy-eight miles in fourteen hours, over the hilly roads of Aberdeenshire. He left Ury at two o'clockmorning, to attend a sale of cattle at a place four miles beyond the Boat of Forbes on the Don, a river in Aberdeenshire, where he remainedfive hours,but walkedin the fields several miles, andreturned homeby nine at night.—In this year, his famous match, fortwo hundredgui­ neas, with Abraham Wood, the celebrated Lancashirepedestrian, tookplace. It was settled in the month of July, that the parties were to go as great a distance as they could in twenty-four hours—and Capt. Barclay was to be allowed twenty miles at starting—tobe decided at Newmarketon the following 12thof October—playor pay. On the dayappointed, this match attract­ ed the greatest concourseof people ever as­ sembled at Newmarket, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Carriagesof everyde­ scriptionwereinnumerablef,romthe barouche andfour, to the dicky cart, and the horsemen andpedestrians exceeded all accuratecalcula- lion of numbers. The place chosen for the p 2 per-