Pedestrianism

.50 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM, more thantwo stones. He performedthirty- five miles a day for twenty successive days, without much difficulty. He walked twenty milesin two hours and forty minutes, on the 11th of July 1809* He matched himselfto go thirty miles in three hours and a quarter, for a bet of one hundred guineasj but the task was evidently beyondhis power, and he failed in the undertaking. He wasmore for­ tunate, however, in a match with the cele­ brated Captain Aiken, which took place this year, on the 26th September, at Thorpe, in Hampshire. The bet was, wliich of them should go the greater distancein forty-eight hours. They started togetherat the extremi­ ties of a piece of groundof fivemiles,and met eachother. Mr.Downes walked ninetymiles the first day, and rested two hours. His ad­ versary went eighty-eight miles, and hadonly an hour to rest. On the second day, Mr. Downes had accomplishedseventy-two miles, and had five hours to spare. Captain Aiken haddone only fifty-six in the same time, and thereforeresigned the match. In