flood’, gliding along with the
current like an arrow,
dodging anchors, ‘broken
piles and great stones’.
Chelsea was also where two
well-known eighteenth-
century figures chose to
swim. ‘I am cruel thirsty this
hot weather,’ wrote Jonathan
Swift to his friend Esther
Johnson in June 1711, ‘I am
just this minute going to
swim.’ He presumably went
naked, as he had someone
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