AMAZING FEATS’ by the
Adelaide Advertiser opens
with: ‘There must be people
still living who looked on
with amazement, one day in
1875, as Miss Agnes
Beckwith stepped out of the
water at Greenwich “fresh as
paint” after swimming from
London bridge.’ It then
quotes ‘sporting baronet’ the
late Sir John Astley: ‘If I
hadn’t seen it with my own
eyes I shouldn’t have
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