A National Park I happen to have walked over, during
the late summer, a good part of that adorable district in Cumberland which is now offered as a National Forest Park, so-called. It always was a national park in essence. On my last walk I met a party of pedestrians armed with a stretcher and a nurse who were on their way to pick up one of their company wholhad broken a leg. What further illustration is needed of the delights of such a park? The scattered farm houses, supported by a few inns, .have all been pleased to entertain visitors and no one has ever had any trouble, so far as I am aware, in regard to access. You can walk where you please. I have no doubt that parts of the area, as indeed earlier extaeri- merits show, are suitable for afforestation ; and the new schemes,:.are doubtless excellent and of some national service; but in what. way. the general holiday-maker will be better off when the district is labelled " National Park," many will fail to understand. The place will be more sophisticated, the free wandering qualified and the views humanised.
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