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twenty -five rivers, all described in the Inspectors' previous 

 reports as variously polluted, still continued subject to the 

 same various forms of pollution — namely, from lead 

 mines, seivage, tanneries, naptha, petroleum, and chemical 

 works, carpet manufactories, collieries, paper-mills , and 

 from vitriol, gas-tar, &c., &c., such rivers being the 

 Calder, Camel, Gleddy, Dart, Dee, Derwent (tributary of 

 Trent), Dovey, with its tributary, the Twymin, Exe, 

 Fowey, Rihble, Severn, Swale, Tamar and Plym, Tees, 

 Towey, Trent, Tyne, Wear, Usk and Ehbw., Wharf e. 

 Wye, and Yealm ; the Inspectors adding that the Ouse 

 (Yorkshire) was polluted near Linton "VVeir by water in 

 which flax had been steeped, the Devonshire Avon and 

 Erme by a new sail-cloth factory, and that at the outfall 

 of the main drainage an offensive mud-bank was accumu- 

 lating in the Thames. 



As regards the Calder, Mr. Buckland, struck with its 

 frightful state of pollution, in reference to that river 

 says, at page 21 : "I went a long way up the Eiver 

 " Calder, a fine tributary of the Rihble. The water here 

 " is wholly unfitted for fish to live in. It is a question 

 " not of fish alone, but of the health of the inhabitants on 

 " the banks, and the population on this river is very 

 " dense.^^ 



Of the way in which the two lead mines on the 

 Twymin (the tributary of the Dovey) — viz., the Dyliffe- 

 and Sir John Conroy's — pollute that stream and the 

 Dovey the Inspectors again speak in terms of strong con- 

 demnation, Mr. Buckland at page 14 saying that — 



" There can be no doubt whatever but that these two 

 " mines are doing an immense amomit of injury to the 

 "fish in the river, and I have written to the proprietors 

 " of them, calling their attention to the facts, and earnestly 

 " requesting them to take measures to keep the lead 

 " washings out of the river, and I do trust they will 

 " follow the good example shown by Mr. Beaumont in 



