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legs performed a fin-like
twitch’, and when he got to
Tower Bridge he ‘performed
a series of evolutions and
somersaults’ in the water. In
1907, at by now fifty, he
swam nine miles from
Richmond to Putney,
announced he would again try
the Channel, and the next
year covered nearly sixteen
miles from Blackfriars to
Richmond. Then, in 1909, he
added a new twist: still

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