Pedestrianism

MODERN PEPESTRIANISM. 45 formedgreat distances, were ^Isoremarkable foragility andswiftness. Robert Bartley, of Hutford in Norfolk, whowasborn annoJ719, wasdistinguished in hisyouth for extraordinaryspee4» and,when an old man, frequentlywalked from Thetford toLondon in one day—adistance of eighty- one miles—and returned the next. He was well knownamong the sporting menof New­ market as a great walker, and died in the sixty-sixthyear of his age. Reed, the notedpedestrian of Hampshire, in 1774, ran ten miles withinan hour, at the Artillery Ground, London. In 1787, he walked one hundred miles in oue day at Gos- port; and on the sands of Weymouth, in 1791, he performedfifty miles in little more than nine hours. In May 1762, Child, the miller of Wands­ worth, walked forty-fourmiles in seven hours andfifty-sevenminutes, on Wimbledon Com­ mon; and in August the sameyear, Mr.John Hague of BinnsnearMarsden, performedone hundredmiles in twenty-three hours and fif­ teenminutes. Mr.