Posted by Robert Thompson on July 18, 2001 at 20:39:51 from 212.229.58.245:
In Reply to: Searching for the Right (Ransome) Words posted by Farwell Forrest on July 15, 2001 at 22:30:10:
The quote is from a letter Ransome wrote to a reader in 1962 and which appears in Ship's Log 1992:
"....Coniston is still much what it used to be, but Windermere has been murdered by savages with speed-boats. I am told that the Norfolk Broads have suffered in the same way. People do not seem to realise that the faster they make their boats the smaller they make their lakes. When I was a boy, Windermere was an ocean. It is now hardly more than a puddle...."