Judging by Sir William Boyd Dawkins's account in the Man-
chester Guardian last Tuesday, the Manchester Corporation's scheme for securing to the city a sufficient water supply has overcome the objections raised by those who feared for the natural amenities of the Lake Country. The plan involves the increasing of the surface of Haweswater, the restoration of a long-lost lake in Swindale and the creation of a lake in an other- wise dull piece of grassland. None of the secluded roads and footpaths are to be disturbed save the few which will be sub- merged by the raising of a water level. The masonry dams are to be made on noble and simple lines. The aqueducts will bo hidden in tunnels. Such buildings as arc needed will bo simple and inoffensive. There is no danger that a Claude Lorraine landscape will be produced. Moreover, the thirty-seven square miles of crag, moor, woodland and open grassland are to bo preserved by the Corporation as a publio reservation like those in the United States, where not only man, but the wild animal is free to roam. Lakeland is no longer the untouched wilderness that it was 100 .years ago. Any summer tourist will tell you that. Consequently this region, far from being desecrated, is actually to be preserved from the ravages of individual builders. And what is a consideration of some importance at least, Manchester and the places in the neigh- bourhood of the aqueduct will be assured an adequate water supply for at least 100 years.
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