. Percy's Pocket dictionary of Coney Island : an index and guide to railroads and steamboat routes, hotels, amusements, restaurants, historical and geographical facts, and all other things in and about this resort; with an appendix on bathing, swimming, and the summer stars . as thesesometimes set outward enough to keep thebather in deep water longer than his powers canhold out. Should he find himself in such acurrent, he should never try to make headdirectly against it, but should swim diagonallytowards the shore, and above all, should try tokeep his presence of mind, and save his strength. C
. Percy's Pocket dictionary of Coney Island : an index and guide to railroads and steamboat routes, hotels, amusements, restaurants, historical and geographical facts, and all other things in and about this resort; with an appendix on bathing, swimming, and the summer stars . as thesesometimes set outward enough to keep thebather in deep water longer than his powers canhold out. Should he find himself in such acurrent, he should never try to make headdirectly against it, but should swim diagonallytowards the shore, and above all, should try tokeep his presence of mind, and save his strength. Cramp, although much less apt to occur in sea 92 SWIMMING. than in river bathing, is sometimes brought onif the water is very cold. The person affectedsliould be at once helped ashore, when warmthand frictions will probable give speedy person subject to this ver) painful affectionshould swim unless a boat is constantly close athand. When a swimmer becomes cxhatisted, if he willturn on his back and Hoat, he can often regainhis strength, and with it his self-possession. Thislatter is of the utmost possible importance; themoment it is lost, and the bather begins tostruggle and to call for help, the danger is im-minent. A sioitfimer should never lose Floating is a very pleasant form of bathing, andeasily learned if one has only confidence. Itconsists in turning on the back, and keeping thenose and mouth out of the water. Of coursethis cannot be done when the surf is very rough,and it is best always to have some one near, lest,without his knowledge, a current or the tideshould carry the floater out into deep have been lost for want of this precaution.{See also Floating above.) Danger of the Piers.—The piers, stretching outseveral hundred feet into the ocean, not only SWIMMING. 93 enable one to obtain a different and much finerview of the surf than is possible from the beach,but they also alVord the luxury of a breeze evenwhen little or no air is s
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