Swimming was another of my favourite amusements, which contributed to make me more healthy, and stronger than most of my companions; as it is beautifully expressed by the author of the Seasons:—
“This is the purest exercise of health,
The kind refresher of the summer heats:
————Hence the limbs
Knit into force, and the same Roman arm
That rose victorious o’er the conquer’d earth,
First learn’d when tender to subdue the wave.”
Barlow sculpt.
The Humming Bird, with its nest &c.