HAWES WATER
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Today for the first time I saw the beautiful lake of Hawes Water. The approach 'from Shap is disfigured by masses of tin huts, and the fells are scarred beyond description. The name of the lake now is shown on the Ordnance Map as the Manchester Corporation Water Works. I believe that not even an American, supposing him to possess a beautiful lake, would permit it to be desecrated, and no other country in the world would dream of such defilement. It is not easy to see what ought to be done, but it is useless for the nation occasionally to preserve for the nation occasional acres of common or woodland, while such gross destruction of natural beauty is permitted. The very hotel in which I write this is to be submerged.—I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
W. A. Mast-.
Then Bull Hotel, Mardale, Bampton, by Penrith.
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