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have in Allardice an instance that hard training and exercise do 

 not shorten human life provided after-excesses are not indulged in, 

 for he lived until he was nearly seventy-five years of age, and died at 

 Ury on May 1, 1854, of paralysis, of which he had two previous attacks. 

 Naturally sceptics were not wanting who disbelieved in Captain 

 Allardice having done the 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours fairly, and most 

 unjustifiable allegations were made soon after, and often since, against 

 him, the principal one being that his brother took his place at night. 

 These scandalous charges have been set aside by several good authori- 

 ties, notably by Captain Horatio Ross, who, in reply to the editor of 

 BelVs Life on the subject, wrote as follows : — 



" I lose no time in replying to your letter, as I am anxious at once to 

 vindicate the memory of my old friend, Barclay-Allardice, from an 

 attack, the Eews of which, for the first time, has reached me. I knew 

 him as intimately as I could know anyone, and I have no hesitation n 

 saying that he was one of the most honourable and rigidly correct 

 men I ever met. Eather than connive or take part in such a swindle 

 as ■■ has charged him with he would at once have sub- 

 mitted to be shot. As to anyone walking for him at night it was 

 simply an impossibility. Immense sums were depending upon the 

 result, and he was watched every hour most rigidly. His brother was 

 much younger than he was and just about half his size" 



In conclusion I shall quote from BeWs Life what it says, with 

 editorial authority, on the subject : — 



" So reliable an authority as Captain Ross thoroughly dispels the 

 probability or possibility of any substitute taking his place at night. 

 Then again, Captain Barclay-Allardice in this instance, as in all his 

 other matches, stood every penny of his own money, besides taking 

 all the odds he could get. He was not at the beck and call of any 

 blackleg or bookmaker, like, alas, many of our modern professional 

 pedestrians. The number of ' quacks ' amongst the latter class who 

 have attempted the 1,000 miles feat, and are said to have been success- 

 ful since 1809, is legion, and we here emphatically reassert what has 

 repeatedly appeared in the ' Answers to Correspondents ' column of 

 BelVs Life in London, viz. : — 'That no one but Captain Barclay-Allar- 

 dice ever has walked 1,000 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours, one mile 

 in each hour. Such barefaced impossibilities as 1,000 miles in 1,000 

 half hours, or in 1,000 quarter hours, are too absurd to require comment 

 at our own hands. It is almost any odds against the feat being 

 achieved again. No amateur of the present generation is sufficiently 

 fond of match-making or could spare the time to attempt it, and the 

 expenses are too great to admit of any professional being able to 

 afford them.' " 



* The name of this traducer is left blank by BelVs LifCy which is a 

 pity.— The Author. 



