Pedestrianism

58 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. thus enabledhimto accomplishthe astonishing exploit. On Friday, the 20th July 1804, John Bell, Esq. engaged to walk from Brook Green to Hammersmith—a distance of fifty-eightmiles —in fourteen hours, for a bet of two hundred guineas; which he performed, with apparent ease, in thirteen hours, and forty-five seconds. —A distance of sixty miles was performed on the 18th of September, the same year, by a butcher of Whitechapel, in eleven hours and a quarter, for a betof seventeen guineas. On the 14th of August 1807, a distanceof sixty-nine miles was performed near Lynd- hurst, in twelve hours,by Wall, a hawker, on the Bath road. He was matched against Campbell of Dowton, Wilts, a man of local notoriety* The pedestriansstartedaboutfour miles from ChristChurch, at eleven o'clock, morning. By four. Wallhad gone thirty-five miles. He was at the same time passed by Campbellj but having restedfor half an hour, he overtook his opponent by nine o'clock. A severe strugglenow ensued,and they kept to­ gether