Pedestrianism

52 - MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. miles ; andon the thirdday,arrivedat Exeter to dinner, wherehe stopt threehours, but re­ turned to Honiton to sleep. On the fourth day, he reached within nine miles of Salis- « ' ' bury; andon the fifth night, slept at a public house near Basingstoke. He had now forty- ninemiles to performon the sixth day,which accomplished by six o'clock in the evening. CaptainHowe, on the 28thof the samemonth, gaineda match of two hundredguineas against CaptainHewetson,havingwalkedeighty miles in less than twenty-fourhours.—-He alsobeat Mr. Smith in a twenty mile race on the Ux- bridgeroad, about the end of October 1809. Mr. Smithwas the favourite before starting; but Captain Howe performed the distancein two hours and twenty minutes, beating his adversaryby half a mile. On the 9th of June 1812, Captain Howe undertook to go sixty miles in twelve hours for a wager of two hundred guineas. He started at four o'clock in the morning, and did half the distance in twelve minutes less thansix hours. He continued at the rate of five