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Gentleman's Magazine 1877 part 2 p.634
one of the floods or heavy rainfalls to which the district is peculiarly liable bearing down the embankment, the whole surrounding district, Keswick, Grasmere, and every bridge along the Cockermouth Keswick and Penrith railway would be swept away. Mr. J. F. Bateman, the engineer to the Corporation, is pleased to assert in his report, that "the uses to which the water can be locally applied are small and insignificant." Upon the same principle the inhabitants of Bethnal Green might propose that we should, in the ensuing winter, fell down the trees in Kensington Gardens and in Richmond Park to supply them with firewood, because "the uses to which the wood can be locally applied are small and insignificant." This is, surely, utilitarianism run mad. Mr. Robert Somervell, of Hazelthwaite, Windermere, has just published a pamphlet in which the chief arguments against the scheme are ably and forcilbly stated. This is entitles, "The Manchester and Thirlmere Scheme: An Appeal to the Public on the Facts of the Case." Mr. Somervell will, I believe, be happy to afford further information to anyone desirous of aiding to oppose the scheme, for which purpose an influential committee of gentlemen of the district, among whom we are somewhat disappointed not to find the name of Mr. Ruskin, has also been formed, and subscriptions for the "Thirlmere Defence Fund" have already been raised to the amount of over a thousand pounds.
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