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in education. There is hope that as the next generation will be 

 much more busy to keep the pleasure-grounds of Lakeland 

 undestroyed, so it will be more capable of appreciating their 

 peace and beauty undisturbed. 



H. D. Rawnsley. 

 Crosthwaite Vicarage, Keswick, April, 1883. 



p.S. — Since reading the above at the London and Ambleside 

 Meetings, a letter has reached me from America, which is worth 

 quoting. Mr. C. J. Hubbard, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 

 writes: — "If voices from this side of the Atlantic could prevent the 

 Vandalism of the proposed railway along the shores of Derwentwater 

 — as dear to the hearts of many Americans as it is to English tourists 

 — I am sure the Company would be forced to abandon the project. 

 I have a vivid recollection of the beauties of your Lake Country, 

 and I sincerely hope that nothing will be done to mar the lovely 

 scenery. The railroad magnates here (as with you) have no mercy 

 upon our landscape, and everything is sacrificed to increased divi- 

 dends.^' That last sentence is bad hearing, but even in America 

 there is a determined stand now being made to keep the locomotive 

 from some of the finest scenery. Many attempts have been made 

 to obtain sanction for lines through the Adirondac Valley without 

 success ; and only the other day some Americans, speaking of the 

 projected railway up Ennerdale, and the L. JSI.- W. R. branch from 

 Yanwath, up the beautiful Eamont Vale to Pooley Bridge, at the 

 foot of Ullswater, said that in America the projectors of such lines 

 would have no chance of obtaining sanction for them from the 

 Legislature. Professor C. E. Norton, of Cambridge, Mass., has 

 written warmly, and will do all in his power to set on foot a 

 a Committee in America to co-operate with us. The educated 

 Americans feel more keenly than we do, by a sadder experience, 

 how scenery can be spoiled. Their tracts of scenery, too, are so 

 vast as to make combination against the spoilers almost impossible. 

 They are the more determined to keep English Lakeland from the 



