A Sketch of the Life of George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian

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A Sketch of the Life of George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian (1815)
by George Wilson
4273343A Sketch of the Life of George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian1815George Wilson

A

SKETCH

OF THE

LIFE

OF

GEORGE WILSON,

THE

Blackheath Pedestrian;

WHO UNDERTOOK TO

WALK ONE THOUSAND MILES

IN TWENTY DAYS!!

BUT WAS INTERRUPTED BY A WARRANT FROM CERTAIN MAGISTRATES OF THE DISTRICT, ON THE MORNING OF THE SIXTEENTH DAY, AFTER HAVING COMPLETED 750 MILES.



WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.



Vires Acquirit Eundo.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY HAY AND TURNER,
No.11, NEWCASTLE STREET, STRAND.


1815.

Entered at Stationers Hall.

The following errors have crept in, through the hurry of a First Edition, which shall be corrected in the Second:

ERRATA.

Page 4, line 2, omit "unanimously."
Page 11, line 25, for "Sisters," read "Brothers."
Page 18, line 10, for "30l." read " 200l."
Page 23, line 15, for "same Evening''," read "third Evening."
Page 26, line 21, omit from "over" to "mountain," line 26.
Page 28, line 11, for "over," read "to."
Page 45, omit "George Aukland and Wm. Brown."

Contents (not listed in original)


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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