Pedestrianism

124 CAPT. BARCLAY'S PERFORMANCES, the kitchen by a small room, where the at­ tendants sat. Thus accommodated, he un­ dertook the match under various disadvan­ tages. On the sixteenth day, however, he removed to new lodgingsnear the HORSE AND JOCKEY, where he continued during the remainder of the time. He also shifted his ground, and walked across the Norwich road up the heath for half a mile out and return. The difficulty of accomplishing this asto­ nishing matchmay be conceived, when it is known that the most celebratedpedestrians of England haveattempted it, and failed. The constant exertion, with the short time allow­ ed for sleep, must soon exhaust the strongest frame 5 and no other man has been able to continue longer than about thirty days. Mr. Howe started at Cliffe Common, So­ mersetshire, to perform the Barclay match ; but at the end of fifteen days he resigned the task, and thus lost his stake of three hundred guineas, besides his health being much in­ jured. Mr.