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CHAPTER VII. 



THE WASTE LANDS AND WASTE WATERS OF THE 

 UNITED KINGDOM. 



Enormous Acreage of Waste Waters — Lake at Fontliill Towers — 

 Carp, Perch, Pike, Eels — Crosses tried at Taymouth — Large 

 Acreage of Waste Lands — What can they Produce ? — llabbits 

 find a Living on them — Potato Disease, Cattle Disease — Disease 

 among Game — Fish — Steam Cultivated Farms. 



There has appeared in the Times, newspaper a 

 long discussion, originated, I believe, by Mr. Frank 

 Buckland, in regard to the enormous acreage of 

 water which lies neglected by the proprietors, and 

 returns not a fowl nor a fish for the general amuse- 

 ment or consumption of society. 



Mr. Frank Buckland is right in liis lamentation 

 over this fact, but scarcely fair to the originator 

 of the idea he has adopted, in not stating from 

 whom he borrowed it. The subject was mooted 

 long ago in one of my works by me, and to some 

 readers Mr. Buckland's suggestion can be nothing 

 new. In the letters on this subject that liave 



