 | 1828 - 454 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...bearing up against it : it is strong ; but if you calcu. cate well, you may reach land. My own experience, and that of others, bids me' pronounce the... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable : any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | Hunting - 1822 - 440 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable ; any young man, in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable : any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable : any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 476 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...the opposite point of the coast, which the swimmer ^yishes to make, but still bearing up against it : it is strong ; but if you calculate well, you may... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...as will be seen by the following extract of a letter, written by his Lordship, in February, 1821. " My own experience, and that of others, bids me pronounce...Leander perfectly practicable : any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825 - 234 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable : Any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 238 pages
...regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea...Leander perfectly practicable : Any young man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side. I was three hours... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...difference of the current, 1 perceived none ; it is favorable to the swimmer on neither •ide, but may ire stemmed by plunging into the sea a considerable way...the passage of Leander perfectly practicable: any >oun- man in good health, and with tolerable skill in swimming, might succeed in it from either side.... | |
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Ekenhead, and myself: the two last were in the presence of hundreds of English witnesses. With regard to the difference of the current, I perceived none ; it is favourable to the swimmer on neither side, but may be stemmed by plunging into the sea a considerable... 
