Men have been known to swim in their clothes a distance of 4000 feet.
Others have performed 2200 feet in twenty-nine minutes.
Some learn to dive and bring out of the water burdens as heavy as a man.
[This art, however, has made little if any progress from the earliest
records that we possess of it. Leander’s feat of passing from Abydos
to Sestos was the crack performance of antiquity; and it was the ultra
achievement of Lord Byron, probably one of the best swimmers of our
day.--ED. Fifth Edition.]