| Show postman who walked past the moon guetle 1 with the commencement of april last georgo fawcett or ast as he is popularly termed george post completed his forty seventh year of service as a rural messenger A statement of tho the distance thus traveled by a public servant of so old a standing roay may I 1 not prove uninteresting for or five years 1835 t 1840 lie ro rode e between sed sedbergh bergh and kandal da daily with the mails thus traversing 4 miles for one year 1841 42 he be rode between kendal and dent miles and from 1842 to 1882 he hs has walked daily between sedbergh Sed bergh and dent in all miles the total distance thus amounts to miles to obtain a better conception of these figures we may call it a distance of about ten times the circumference of the world nearly eighty times the distance from england to america and 2360 miles further than from the earth to the moon I 1 during liis his forty seven years he will have sorted carried and delivered some or letters exclusive of newspapers etc |
