To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir.-Observing in vour paper of Frieay' last, a circusnetance relative to :he prthibition of bathing in the Serpentine river, on account of the many accidents which have happexed chere, I bep ?eave to state, through the medium of your paper, that for these la3tt few years I have bcen in thc constant habit of bathinz in thst river (on the right hand side of the receiving-house, on the same itdc as ;he house), wlhere also 50 or 60 on an average daily go. and can wjlh truth aswert, that I bave never yet herrd of an accident in that part indeed, the water deepens so gradually, that I have seen a man b feet 10 inches walk across: asd as to the springs, I doubt not thtp theremnay be many in the river,though I havenever felt then ir. the:t place. 'he Knightsbridgc side, I grant, is very dangerous, owing to the extreme uncertaintv in depth, and which being generally known. I can hardly think it just that many should be deprived of the fsalutary effects of bathir4j, through the imprudence of a few. I wouid also add, thattle place called the Spring is so retired, that all indecency is preventcc, there tot pastsing a p-rson onr that way except for the enjoyment of hathing. Considering that the river is the only place near sOwn, and tdat the New Company have not put thieir plan yet in executk)n; I trust ys'a will favour me by the inseriion of as much as You th1tk necesary to forward the views of Your obediert servfDtL bv the encot.rameement of bathing in that river, A CONSTANT READER- b At the Coroner's Ilnquest hel on the body cst a drowned person, it Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. TO TIlE EDITOR OP TIE TM,JM.t