SWIMMING THE CHANNEL.
ANOTHER ABORTIVE ATTEMPT, [rBESS ASSOCIATION.! * LONDON, 10th August. Burgess made an attempt to swim the English Channel, but failed. When nearing Wissant (south of Calais) he was seized with cold, and had to give up, after a strong and plucky swim lasting fourteen hours and a half. Burgess covered altogether (including drifting) about twenty-nine miles.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5
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58SWIMMING THE CHANNEL. Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5
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