Swimming (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1893)
Sinclair, Archibald, Henry, William, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 58
tions patented as aids to swimming, is that illustrated by fig. 8. Would any sane person fasten himself up in this apparatus for the sake of a swim? It is hard to imagine anything more ridiculous and impracticable. To the same list of curiosities may be added the machine represented in fig. 9. It… … for the protection of this most extraordinary idea. How any- one could imagine that a body could be propelled by a process of churning, as suggested by this contrivance, passes all under- standing ; for any person with the slightest knowledge of the water can easily realise what the result would be…
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