by George Cartwright,
at London, England, February 21, 1887.

75 Miles.--8 hours 48 minutes 30 seconds, made by George Littlewood, at
London, England, November 24, 1884.

100 Miles.--13 hours 26 minutes 30 seconds, made by Charles Rowell at
New York, February 27, 1882.

In instances of long-distance traversing, rapidity is only a secondary
consideration, the remarkable fact being in the endurance of fatigue
and the continuity of the exercise. William Gale walked 1500 miles in a
thousand consecutive hours, and then walked 60 miles every twenty-four
hours for six weeks on the Lillie Bridge cinder path. He was five feet
five inches tall, forty-nine years of age, and weighed 121 pounds, and
was but little developed muscularly. He was in good health during his
feat; his diet for the twenty-four hours was 16 pounds of meat, five or
six eggs, some cocoa, two quarts of milk, a quart of tea, and
occasionally a glass of bitter ale, but never wine nor spirits. Strange
to say, he suffered from constipation, and took daily a compound
rhubarb pill. He was examined at the end of his feat by Gant. His pulse
was 75, strong, regular, and his heart was normal. His temperature was
97.25 degrees F., and his hands and feet warm; respirations were deep
and averaged 15 a minute. He suffered from frontal headache and was
drowsy. During the six weeks he had lost only seven pounds, and his
appetite maintained its normal state.

Zeuner of Cincinnati refers to John Snyder of Dunkirk, whose
walking-feats were marvelous. He was not an impostor. During
forty-eight hours he was watched by the students of the Ohio Medical
College, who stated that he walked constantly; he assured them that it
did not rest him to sit down, but made him uncomfortable. The
celebrated Weston walked 5000 miles in one hundred days, but Snyder was
said to have traveled 25,000 miles in five hundred days and was
apparently no more tired than when he began.

Recently there was a person who pushed a wheelbarrow from San Francisco
to New York in one hundred and eighteen days. In 1809 the celebrated
Captain Barclay wagered that he could walk 1000 miles in one thousand
consecutive hours, and gained his bet with some hours to spare. In 1834
Ernest Mensen astonished all Europe by his pedestrian exploits. He was
a Norwegian sailor, who wagered that he could walk from Paris to Moscow
in fifteen days. On June 25, 1834, at ten o'clock A.M., he entered the
Kremlin, after having trave