Pedestrianism

54 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. f as he couldnot havemore thanfifty minutes rest at one time, duringfour days andnights. He was much distressed: his legs wereswol­ len, andhis wholeframewas exhausted. His courage, however, never failedhim; and he completedthe task amidst the shouts of the multitude that this extraordinary experiment had attracted. ThomasSavager, who died in 1809, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, was a noted pedestrian, although only five feet and four inches in stature, and lame from his youth. In 1789, he undertook to walk fourhundred and four miles, in six days. The scene of his performance was on the turnpike road from Hereford through Leominster to Ludlow; and he won his wager within five hours of the time allowed. When the superfluous ground over which he walked to his lodgings at Hereford, Ludlow, &c. was added, it was found that he had walked not less than four hundred and twenty-nine miles in five days and nineteen hours. On the 18th of September 1811,Mr. Meal­ ing'