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The Newcastle Song Book

Note 20 — ON RUSSELL THE PEDESTRIAN,

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John Simpson, the Cumberland Pedestrian, attempted to walk 96 miles on the same ground, in the same period of time, on Whit-Monday, and again on the 29th and 30th of July, 1822; in both of which attempts he failed.

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