Pedestrianism

/ . > MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 59 gether until ten; when Wall made an extra­ ordinary push, and went nearly eight miles in the last hour, beating his adversary by a mile and a half. In this match, the winner walked five miles and three-quarters perhour on the average, includingthe time he refresh­ ed, which, allowing for the distance, must be considered a very extraordinary effort. In August 1809, Captain Walsham, of the Worcestershire regiment of militia, walked the distance of sixty miles in twelve hours, with ease; and afterwards rode thirty miles on two curricle horses, in two successive hours, for a wager of one hundred and twenty gui­ neas. Mr. Hopper of Canterbury, walked sixty- three miles in eleven hours and thirty-nine minutes. He started from the turnpike on St. Martin's Hill, and at the endof the first hour he had gone seven and a half miles : se­ cond hour, eleven miles, including stoppage for breakfast: third hour, and five minutes, twenty miles : fourthhour, twenty-six miles: fifth hour, thirty-four miles: sixth hour, in- H 2 eluding