Pedestrianism

60 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. eluding dinner,thirty-five miles: seventhhour, forty-onemiles: eighth hour,forty-five miles: ninthhour, fifty-onemiles: tenth hour, fifty- five miles: eleventh hour, sixty miles: and at thirty-eight and three-fourthminutespast the eleventh hour, he finished sixty-three miles, apparently much fatigued. A distance of fiftymiles wasperformed in nine hours, on the 28th of March 1811, by Clough, a groom, on the Bath road, for a wagerof fiftyguineas. He regularly walked six miles anhour forthe first fivehours j and his average rate of travelling wasfive miles, one half, and one ninth part of a mile, per hour.—Eightymiles, at two starts, wereper­ formedby Shoreham, a publican, on the 22d of April the same year. He started from Paddingtonto go to Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, and to return. He went forty miles in six hoursanda half,andafterrestingthreehours, he accomplishedthe other forty miles in six hours and forty minutes, having completed the distance in thirteen hours and ten mi­ nutes