Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 47 He was so fresh on his return, that he offered to walk a hundrejd miles the next day for a considerable wager. In the same year, he went from Hyde Park corner to Windsor, and back, in seven hours. In July 1792, he undertook to walk from London to York, and back, in five days and fifteen hours, which he accomplished within his time by an hour and twenty-five minutes. In 1792, when in the fifty-seventh year of his age, he offeredto Walk six miles in one hour j to run a mile in five minutes and a half j and to go five hundred miles in seven days. He required a bet of one hundred guineas on the last undertaking, and twenty guineas on either of the other two. But no person appearing to accept his offer, he afterwards declined all pedestrian perform­ ances for wagers. This celebrated pedestrian was born in the year 1736, at Horsforth, near Leeds, in York­ shire. He was bred to the profession of the law, and was clerk to an attorney in New Inn, London. He was beat by West of Windsor, in walking forty miles on the western road, for a wager of forty guineas. He was, how­ ever.