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Shepherd to the ploddmg, persevering, walker 

 of seventy miles a day, for so many successive 

 days ; the one is distinguished as a runner, 

 the other as a walker, but both feats come 

 under the head of pedestrianism. Again, there 

 are some men, such as Charles Westall, both 

 runners and walkers ; it is rare, however, that 

 we find them, as in his case, pre-eminent at 

 both feats. 



I know of nothing that can be alleged 

 against the exertions of the runner or walker; 

 its practice is perfectly harmless, indeed it 

 would be well both for the health and utility 

 of mankind if the exhibition of pedestrianism 

 raised a feeling of emulation among them to 

 imitate such examples of manly exertion. To 

 show how little prone men are to exertion, 

 consequently how little they know of their own 

 powers or those of other men, when Captain 

 Barclay walked his match of a thousand miles 

 in a thousand successive hours all England was 



