from Evans and Selwyn,
again improving Cuckoo
Weir as well as two other
swimming spots, Boveney
and Athens. ‘Great credit is
due to the authorities at
Eton,’ wrote Henry
Robertson in his 1875 book
Life on the Upper Thames,
where nearly every boy was a
competent swimmer, ‘the
result being that out of a
school averaging eight
hundred, not one case of
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