*' saving the arsenic with profit to themselves. No other 

 " raining company has used any eflfectual measures." * 



And speaking of polluted water generally, ]Mr. Buck- 

 land remai'ks, page 5 : — 



" Impure and polluted water will encourage disease, 

 " especially cholera : pure Avater will disarm disease of its 

 " powers, and at the same time be available for growing 

 " excellent human food." 



Mr. Walpole the other Inspector, in his separate Report 

 of the same date observes, page 5 : — 



" It would be impossible for me to omit all notice of 

 '' that bane of Salmon rivers pollutions — a bane which 

 " unhappily there is but a very doubtful remedy against 

 " under the existing laws ;" adding, " but though I am 

 " aware the law is defective, and though I hope the day 

 " may shortly come when it may be made illegal to put 

 " any pollution into a running stream, I abstain from re- 

 " commending any alteration in the Salmon Laws in this 

 " respect as a question of such importance should not be 

 " confined to the minor consideration, important though 

 " it be, of the cultivation of our Salmon rivers." 



15 Auff. 1867. On the 15th August, 1867, the Royal Commissioners on 

 3rd Report of {[^q pollution of rivers made their Report on the Rivers 

 the Commis- 1^77 a io iiii 



sionersonthe ^^ re and LJalder. At pages lU and 11 the report, says: 



Pollution of , n-.! 1 • 1 /-> 7 7 1 1 1 • 11 



Kivers. (The J- he Aire and Leader, throughout their whole course, 



^jVe and "are abused, obstructed, and polluted (to an extent 



Calder.) « scarcely conceivable by other than eye-witnesses) from 



" Skij)ton on the Aire, and from Todmordcn on the Calder, 



" to Castleford," where they unite. 



* Except, it is only right to add, (but of which the Tamar Board 

 were probably unaware,) the London Lead Company and Mr. Went- 

 worth Beaumont, M.P., both of Avhoni, to their credit, liad adopted, 

 or were about to adopt, at their extensive mines in the valleys of the 

 Wear and Tees, the same means as the Devon Great Consols Com- 

 pany to prevent the pollution of the rivers. — {Vide correspondence 

 between the London Lead Company and Mr. Beaumont and the late 

 Mr. Ffenncll, the Inspector of Fisheries. Land and Water, 13th 

 October, I81 G, p. 27G. — Also, Mr. Buckland's remarks on Mr. Beau- 

 mont's good example, pp. 14 and 49 of the Inspectors of Fisheries 

 Seventh Annual Report, 1868. 



