The United Kingdom 93 
ing Switzerland, are asked to impress 
upon hotel keepers and others the truth 
that unimpaired natural beauty is their 
chief asset, and that, whilst they cannot 
add to the attractions of their country, 
to diminish them is a short-sighted 
and a fatal policy. 
Individuals. Great Britain is fairly 
fortunate, as the great landowners man- 
age their estates on conservative lines. 
In many cases, woods and moors and 
even small lakes are preserved for the 
sake of their beauty, or for the plant 
and animal life which they sustain. 
Some of the Norfolk broads are so 
preserved. Moreover, British land- 
lords have a passion for carefully pro- 
tected game-preserves. It would be 
almost impossible to enumerate here all 
examples of such a nature, but one case 
from Ireland may be mentioned. The 
island of Lambay, near Dublin, is a 
large breeding-place of sea birds, and 
