Pedestrianism

70 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. turn, and after stopping again at Edmonton, arrivedat the starting postat fifty-twominutes past seven. Including stoppages,Blewet,who was a young man, performedthe twenty-four miles in two hoursand thirty-fourminutes,or at the rateof more thannine miles an hour. Mr. Harwoodperformed eighteen miles in two hours, on Monday the 26th of October 1811, on the Bath road, for a wager of one hundredguineas. " Rickets, the celebrated Hampshi^ pedes­ trian, ran seventeen miles in one hour and forty-nine minuted, for a wager of five gui­ neas. The same distance wai |)eipfbrmed on the 10th of October 1807, by a mari .of the name of Keeley, fifty-four years of ftge, in one hour andfifty-sevenminutes. • He started at six in the morningfrom ShoreditcliChurch to go to Ponder's End, and back again,being allowed two hours for the performance. He reached Ponder'sEnd at six minutes before seven, and stopped ten minutes to refresh, when he started again, and returned within three minutes of his time. In