THE IMPROVEMENT OF THIRLMERE.
[To TER EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR.") na,—All lovers of the English lakes will be grateful to you for your article on Thirlmere in the Spectator of February 11th. But those of us who knew the lake more than thirty years ago, and have scarcely cared since to visit the old beloved haunts on its desecrated shores, have long ceased to expect anything from the Manchester Corporation, and have assuredly not been disappointed. Our only consolation, when confronted with blue gates and fences, red-stone bridges, castellated. buildings, and the reinovul of every scrap of moss, fern, and heather which finds a precarious foothold on the rampart-like walls, lies in the marvellous power of recovery inherent in this country, which may even yet, perhaps when Manchester factories are as extinct as the bloomeries on the shore of Coniston, restore something of its former beauty to Lannchey Ghyll.—I am, Sir, &e., Linz DWELLER.
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