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migratory salmonkind to run. All 

 the water beyond that is a ruinous 

 extravagance. Its very effectively assisted 

 passage to the sea is the reason why, as 

 Mr. C. G. Barrington has noted in The 

 Times, the rivers are so low in summer 

 that neither seatrout nor salmon could 

 run then. If the mountain regions 

 had not been drained, the rains and the 

 snows would be economised and the 

 rivers would have natural and ample 

 flows all through the year. 



The hills and the mountains are 

 drained, however, and there's an end of 

 that. We would not undo the measure 

 of progress if we could. 



Still, there is no reason why we should 

 not neutralise it. That is possible and 

 almost easy. The means has been fre- 

 quently described. It is the construction 

 of reservoirs at or near the source of 

 rivers. In a great many cases Nature 

 herself seems to have anticipated the 

 plan. She has placed a lake at or near 

 the source of many a river. Not a few 



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