The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 84
in the rightorder they come naturally. Anyperson who is accustomed to thewater knows that the greatest dif-ficulty he has to contend withis to dive or sinlc (i.e. to striveagainst the natural buoyancy of the body) and not to float. Letany of our readers try to pick up a bright object from the… … out of its depth, it finds itself at once lifted up, and floatingwith its head above water, and, having no fear of sinking, itsanxiety to reach the shore prompts it to make the naturalmotion with its four limbs. Man has not, like the quadruped, the advantage of guidinghimself in the water in his…
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