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fellows’ were seen bathing on
the banks of the river at
Greenwich ‘in defiance of the
order very properly issued by
the Lord Mayor’. The
nuisance had ‘recently
become intolerable’,
considering the number of
passing passengers ‘hourly
conveyed by the steam-
boats’, and the press hoped
the police would step forward
and ‘do their duty’. The river
would hardly have been