|  | Gentleman's Magazine 1878 part 1 p.124 ...
 AMONG the many reasons, most of them valid ones, against  
making Thirlmere, one of the most charming of the English  
Lakes, a Manchester reservoir, is that such a proceeding  
will probably destroy one of the few specimens of haunted  
houses we have still left in England. It is Miss Martineau  
who tells us of that lonely residence under Armboth Fell,  
where the lights are seen in the empty banqueting-chamber,  
and the spectral dog welcomes the invisble
 
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