Pedestrianism

CHAPTER III. UHE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. To walk or run for two or three hours at the rate of eight miles an hour, may be deemed extraordinary speed, conjoined to consider­ able strength and command of wind .But more than nine miles an hour have been ac- complished on a distance of twenty miles; and upwards of eighton a distance of forty. A man named Blewet from Crewkerne, So­ mersetshire, for a small wager, undertook to go twenty-four miles in three hours. On the 5th of September 1808, he started at four o'clock fromShoreditch Church, and reached Theobalds in Hertfordshire,at twenty minutes past six, having stopped at Edmonton four or five minutes. He refreshed, and remained here ten minutes, when he started on his re­ turn.