Timeline for How old is the expression "walking distance"?
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| May 24, 2022 at 5:59 | comment | added | WS2 | @tchrist I stand corrected. I knew he had goats and sheep etc and have been to the place where he landed in Botany Bay, but I must have forgotten that there was a horse - the one that evidently arrived in New Zealand. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 21:51 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @WS2 You might be astonished. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | WS2 | @Greybeard As we are dealing here with the journal of Captain Cook - I think it unlikely that his ship The Endeavour was carrying anything such as a horse or a mule. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 19:40 | comment | added | Greybeard | I suppose that, here, "walking distance" is "for a gentleman" and as opposed to "riding distance". | |
| May 23, 2022 at 10:46 | history | edited | Greybeard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2022 at 9:40 | history | answered | ermanen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |