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Show LONC WALKS. 1702. May 20, John Morgan, a Welshman, for a wager of one hundred hun-dred guineas, undertook to walk from londun to Land's End, iu Cornwall, and back again (six hundred and twelve miles), in tour teen day, j which be accomplished within nine hours of the time allowed him. I 1750. Sept. 8, Pearson, a tailor, who was to walk three hundred miles in Tothill Fields, Westminster, in six days, finished his journey half ,an hour within the time allowed him. 175'J. On Feb. 1. George tiuotit, of Birmingham, who had laid a considerable con-siderable wager that lie walked one thousand miles in twenty-eight days, finished his journey with great ease. It seemed as if ho had laid by for ; bets, for in the last two days he had I one hundred and six miles to walk, but walked them with as much ease to himeelf that, to show his agility he walked the last six miles within an hour, though he had lully six hours to do them in. I860. In July, a young woman went from Blencogo, in Scotlan i, to witbin two miles of Newcastle in one day, which is about seventy-two miles. , Robert Batley, of Hutford, in Norfolk, Nor-folk, when an old man, frequently walked from Thetford to Loudon (eighty-one miles), in one day, and ; back the next. 178S. July 20, John Batty under-, under-, took to walk seven hundred miles 00 Richmond course in fourteen days, which he performed with groat eaBe. Mr. Batty was in the fifty-fifth year of his age. 1790. May, Thomas Suvagar, a laborer in Herefordshire, walked four hundred and four miles in six days over a very rough and stony roud between be-tween Hereford and Ludlow. 1791. July, a gentleman, aged 77, walked from London to Liverpool in four days, which is above fifty miles a day. |