“In large cities, it is necessary to have bathing-houses; in places of a scattered population, they may be dispensed with; and yet warm baths will require a house anywhere. Several have been erected in Boston within the last twenty years—of which we believe Mr. Braman’s, below Charles Street and net far from Beacon street ... on the margin of Charles river or bay, is the largest and most convenient. The building is two stories, eighty feet in length, and fifty in breadth—and it has fifty bathing rooms. The water is salt, both the warm and cold. Connected with the building ... is a large apparatus for a swimming school.... This, we understand, is the only school for teaching the art of swimming in the United States.” American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1:512 (August 1835). Charles Francis Adams’ quotation above is from page 304, below.