IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISES

fn1 For this instrument, rough coarse clothes are adopted, but not with advantage.

fn2 Little sleep is now prescribed; but its quantity should depend upon circumstances of fatigue, &c.

LOCOMOTIVE EXERCISES

fn1 Seven miles in one hour are said to have been done by some.

fn2 A clever writer in Blackwood’s Magazine says, ‘There can be no doubt that, out of the British army, on a war establishment, ten thousand men might be chosen, by trial, who would compose a corps capable of marching fifty miles a day, on actual service, for a whole week. The power of such a corps is not to be calculated: it would far outgo cavalry.’

fn3 Half a mile was recently run in two minutes; but it was down a fall as precipitous as a mountain’s side, and the performer was blind in the last twenty yards. – ED. Fifth Edition.

fn4 The author means, with the aid of a spring-board. – ED. Fifth Edition.

fn5 I have seen twenty-two feet covered forward and backward, by an Irish tailor. – ED. Fifth Edition.

AQUATIC EXERCISES

fn1 The expression ‘loss’ here, is used as the result produced by increased evaporation from the pores, consequent upon violent bodily exertion.

fn2 This art, however, has made little if any progress from the earliest records that we possess of it. Leander’s feat of passing from Abydos to Sestos, was the crack performance of antiquity; and it was the ultra achievement of Lord Byron, probably one of the best swimmers of our day. – ED. Fifth Edition.

PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM

fn1 The military principles and practices are duly appreciated throughout this work, as those found by the most extensive experience on the most unfavourable subjects, to be upon the whole the best calculated to prevent or remedy every tendency to deformity.