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though it be on Cornhill, and try." He notices it a second tifne 

 just after Mr. Crosthwaite's death. I forget the occasion — but he 

 called it " poor old Peter Crosthwaite's pump." For very many 

 years people from the town went to High Hill for water in 

 preference to the wells close at hand, which were contaminated by 

 noxious matter. To return again for a moment to his book. Here 

 we have a man. a hydropathist before his time. His recommen- 

 dation of the use of water is the key note of the work, and I just 

 quote the remarks on the last page, which will show the spirit in 

 which the writer propounded his theory. In conclusion he says, 

 " Barter with Jews and Gentiles. Give and take. Give pure 

 religion, and receive their cleanly and salutary customs. Teach 

 them without superstition the gospel of Christ, in its greatest 

 purity, and learn from them (it was from them I received it) how 

 to make the best use of pure water. Draw near to them in a 

 cleanly and temperate manner, and they will draw near to you ; 

 and let us, in the name of God, be one fold under one great 

 shepherd. Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb ; and the 

 leopard lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion 

 and the fatling together : and a litde child shall lead them." And 

 then, may " the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the 

 waters cover the sea." 



It is not every one who has been in India who has 

 faith to believe in the conversion of the heathen. But here 

 is a man who advocated Christian Missions, just a quarter of 

 a century before the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the 

 East was established. 



In 1798, when canals were being constructed in other 

 places, Mr. Curwen, M.P., and other country gentlemen, mooted 

 the question whether one from Skinburness to Keswick could 

 not be made, passing along the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. 

 Mr. Crosthwaite took five or six days to level from the sea to 

 Uunmail Raise at his own cq^t, and he reported that the number 

 of locks necessary would make the work so expensive, that it would 

 not pay for the outlay, and consequently the idea was abandoned. 

 For eight and twenty years he carried on his Museum, and in his 



