Pedestrianism

244- G N T R A I N I N G . weight. This is produced by purgatives,eme­ tics, sweats, and starvation. Their bodily strength is of no importance, as they have only to manage the reinsof the courser, whose fleetness depends upon the weight he carries; and the muscular power of the rider is of no consequence to therace, provided it beequal to the fatigue of a three orfour-mile heat. Training for pugilismis nearly the same as for pedestrianism, the object in both being principally to obtain additional wind and strength.—But it will"bebest illustrated by a detail of the process observed by CRIB , the champion of England, preparatory to his grand battle with Molineaux, which took place on the 29th of September 1811. The champion arrivedat Ury on the 7tk of July of that year. He weighed sixteen stones ; and from his mode of living in Lon­ don, and the confinement of a crowded city, he had become corpulent, big-bellied, full of gross humours, and short-breathed ; and it was with difficulty he could walk ten miles. He first went through a course of physic, which