Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 63 of June, andwent twenty-one miles in three hours; nineteen milesand a half in the other three hoursj and the remaining mile and a halfin ten minutes. Thomas Miller, of Cowford in Sussex, on the 7th ofJuly 1795, walkedfromthe market- houseat Horsham to Westminster Bridge—a distanceof thirty-sixmiles—in fivehours and fiftyminutes, with apparentease. John Jones,a Welchman,andWilliam Wil­ liams, a Lancashire man, ran thirtymiles on the Hereford road, on Monday the 12th of June 1809, fora wager of five hundred gui­ neas. Williamshad the better of his antago­ nist for the first twentymiles; but Jones soon after passed him, and won the race in three hoursand three-quarters. Spence, a chairman in Paisley, went from the cross of Glasgow to Edinburgh—a dis­ tanceof forty-two miles—in sevenhours and twenty minutes, without much apparent fa­ tigue. Mr. Ensor, clerk of HighgateChapel, un­ dertook,in September 1806, to walk twenty- six