Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM". 61 nutes, whichwasat the rateof more thansix milesper hour. On the 15thof April 1812, Lieut. Groats undertookfora wagerof two hundredguineas to go seventy-twomiles in twelve hours. He wentfromBlackfriarsroadto Canterbury,and thence back to Stroud. He performed the first fourteen miles in two hours. Whenhe hadgope sixty miles he was much fatigued, but by the aid of refreshment and rubbing, he was enabledto proceed, andaccomplished the distance within six minutes of the time allowed. Six miles per hour, for any distancefrom twenty-four to fortymiles,mustbe considered as verysuperior walking, although several of the most celebratedpedestrians have exceed­ ed that rate.—Mr. Pearsonperformed thirty- seven miles in five hours and twenty-seven minutes,for a wager of one hundred guineas. He started from Pimlico to go to Datchet- bridge near Windsor, and return, at three o'clockin the morning of the 11th July 1807. He went off on a shuffling walk,and stopt at Honslow