WASTE LANDS AND WASTE WATERS. lid 



now misused baby, the '' constitution" — a waste 

 of water, so far as the English appetite for food 

 is tliought of, but not wasted, in regard to the 

 splendid landscape, and the well kept-up wood- 

 land garden, or the enjoyment of the kind and hos- 

 pitable lady, who so generously and widely really 

 watches over the interest of the working-classes, for 

 slie does enjoy the beauties of her gifted domain. 



Here is decidedly one of the lakes that does 

 not yield fish or fowl to the larder, but which 

 might yield both. I take this as an instance of 

 the theme under discussion, and I put the ques- 

 tion to myself of how this fine sheet of water 

 could be turned to more useful and enjoyable 

 purposes? The usual remedy, on all occasions 

 put in force for carp, cannot be resorted to, to 

 drain the depths of this lake — must not be 

 thought of: liow, then, are you to get out the pest 

 of carp, and to make room for other fish ? You 

 cannot sufficiently do this with nets, and, there- 

 fore;, there is no visible way, keej^ing an eye to 

 the maintenance of the water and beauty of the 

 woods, by which success can be obtained unless 

 you resort to two remedies which seem to me to 

 be possible — tlie one remedy to follow closely on 

 the other. I w^ould stupefy and take out the 



