hours a day, ‘and though the
journey is a very favourite
one for boating parties, the
idea of accomplishing it by
swimming does not seem to
have previously occurred to
any one’.
The American novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne joined
one such boating party near
Oxford when he toured
England in the 1860s, finding
the river narrow, shallow and
bordered with bulrushes and
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