The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 87
s, and is able to. cross a narrow stream, corks and bladders may be occasionally adopted, for a short time, in order that the pupil, by means of their support, may, at his ease, perfect himself a in the action necessary for superior swimming, especially with the arms eh and hands. The action of the… … of cork, increasing Pe progressively in circumference, are run, by a hole made in their centres, on : +4 each end of a piece of stout rope, which is long enough to reach across er the breast, and beyond the arm-pits ; the same number cf corks is placed _ at each side of the rope, and they are kept…
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