The first boat of the season appeared on the river yesterday afternoon. The new pair-oared shell, which Mr. Frank Peabody ordered in England, was tried for the first time by Mr. Peabody, Mr. H. W. Keyes and Mr. R. C. Watson. The shell is a beauty, made so as to set low in the water and with two pairs of sliding seats so that stroke and bow may row either on the port or starboard side. The coxswain's seat is finely upholstered. The boat was made by the well-known Cambridge boat-builders, Swaddle and Co., and is a duplicate of the one in use at present by the Cambridge crew.
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