Downstream

The following day he
resumed swimming and ‘by
means of a steady
breaststroke’ continued until
10 a.m. ‘when a severe storm
passed over’. However, he
‘persevered gallantly with his
task’, according to the Daily
News, and again stayed in the
water for about eight hours.
When he reached Shillingford
Bridge, ‘Easton was in capital
condition . . . and intends
resuming his swim at eight