Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 5S ' J . five miles in the hour, and won the match withinten minutesof the timeallowed. Mr. Canning, a gentleman in Hampshire, walked threehundred miles in less than five days. He started at the turnpike road four miles from Basingstoke, at four in the morn­ ing, and went sixty miles in fourteen hours. He finishedhis task two miles from Yeovil in Somersetshire,by eleven at night, on the fifth day. He was apparently so little fatigued, that probably he could have continued for several days; but in the course of the jour­ ney, he lost twenty-sixpounds in weight. Mr. Rimmington, a farmer at Holt near Dorchester, inOctober1811, walkedfivehun­ dredand sixty miles in sevendays, at the rate of eighty milesa day, for a wagerof two hun­ dred guineas. He was much emaciated by thisextraordinary exertion,and became very lame towards the close. Lieutenant Halifax, of the Lancashiremili­ tia, walkedtwomiles an hourforone hundred successive hours, near Tivertonin Devon, in March 1808. This was a great perfoimance, as