Downstream

printers took an aquatic
excursion up the river’ in
order to decide a wager
‘between them and a
gentleman of some sporting
celebrity’. The course was
from Battersea Bridge to
Blackfriars, four and a half
miles with the tide without
stopping, which another
swimmer had successfully
managed a few weeks earlier
for a twenty-guinea bet. In
this case a Mr Jolley,