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 of swimming consists in heaving up the breast as high, and keeping it inflated as much as possible, while your arms are held up.

You cannot easily imagine how this manner of swimming is performed, as it is indeed very surprising. By this means you may stand upright in the water, though ever so deep, without fear of sinking. To make you comprehend it, you are to remember, that when you swim on your back, you lie still, your legs being extended; when you find yourself in that posture, you must let your legs go down of sink ; and when they come to be perpendicular to the bottom, you must take them up again, bending your knees, and inflating your breast; and as to the arms and hands, whereof the back parts liclie [sic] flat on the water by the shoulders, you must sometimes extend them on the one side, sometimes on the other, sometimes shut them, turning the palms towards the bottom, the fingers close to one another, holding your chin as upright as possible. This way, which scemsseems [sic] so surprising, is sometimes very useful; suppose, at any time, the ice should happen to break under your feet, this way will be of vast advantage to secure yourself from the danger.