ration in not dreading water. Not merely did he
approve of water internally, but externally as well.
Swimming, he maintained, was one of the most health-
ful and agreeable exercises in the world, and if one did
"not know how to swim, . . . a warm bath, by cleansing

EAST PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1754 (?) .

and purifying the skin, is found very salutary. . . . I
speak from my own experience, frequently repeated, and
that of others, to whom I have recommended this." In
the year 1778, when suffering from a cutaneous trouble,
he says, " I took a hot bath twice a week, two hours at
a time," with the utmost benefit; and a subsequent
neglect, when he "hardly bathed in those three months,"
served to bring on a second attack. In the last years
of his life, when suffering from a complication of mala-
dies, Cutler relates that he "used a warm bath every
day," in a "bathing vessel said to be a curiosity. It
is copper, in the form of a Slipper. He sits in the
Heel, and his legs go under the Vamp; on the In-
step he has a place to fix his book, and here he sits

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