Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — Long Walks. [ARTICLE]

Long Walks.

1702.—May 2fl, John Morgan, a Welshman, for a wager of 100 guineas, under-' took to walk from London to Land’s End, in Cornwall, and back again (612 miles),: fa fourteen days; whichne accomplished within nine hours of the time altowed 1750.—September 8, Pearson, a" tiiil&. who waa to walk 800 miles >fa: ;Tothill Fields, Westminster, fa six days, finished his journey half an hour within the time allowed him. ; ! . ; onool s that he would walk 1.000 mites in fcteto-ty-efaht days, finished bis faqrney wjfa great" eate. It seemed as if he had laid oVfte had 106 miles to walk, but walked them with M much ease to himselFffiat, to Show bis agility, he walked the last six miles within an haur t though be bad fall// six hours to So them in. 1765 —ln July, a young womrfn went from Blencago, fa Scotland, fa tiithfalWO miles of Newcastle, in one day, which is about seventy-two miles. Robert BaUey; of Hutford, fa Nortolkr when an fad man, frequently walked from Thetfofa to London (eighty-One miles) in one day, and back tbd next. >' ■ J 1788.—July 20, John Betty undertook to walk 700 miles on Richmond course ifi fourteen days, which he performed with great ease. Mr.' Betty was fa the fifty-fiffa Sarragw, a laborer tn Herefordshire, walked 404 miles, in.six days, over a Very rough and stony road, between Hereford and Ludlow. ' abt» - 1701.—July, agentleman, aged seventyseven, walked from London fa Liverpool in four days, which is above fifty miles » day.— Cor. Ban Franeitco Newt Lottery