Produced by Chris Curnow, Hary Lame and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | Text printed in italics in the original is represented here | | between underscores, as in _text_. Texts printed in small | | capitals in the original work have been changed to ALL | | CAPITALS. | | Greek words in the original book have been transcribed and are| | here given between square brackets, as in [hakatoi]. | | The oe-ligature is represented as [oe]; [+] represents a | | dagger symbol. | | In the form that occurs in this work, blanks have been changed| | to lines of underscores: ________________. | | | | More detailed transcriber's notes will be found at the end of | | this text. | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ The Badminton Library OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES EDITED BY HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G. ASSISTED BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON _BOATING_ PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON [Illustration: GENERAL VIEW OF HENLEY REGATTA (_Frontispiece_)] BOATING BY W. B. WOODGATE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. EDMOND WARRE, D.D. AND A CHAPTER ON ROWING AT ETON BY R. HARVEY MASON [Illustration] _WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AFTER FRANK DADD_ _AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS_ LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1888 _All rights reserved_ _DEDICATION_ _TO_ _H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES._ BADMINTON: _March, 1887_.