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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: counties east and west of the hills. Then come the Lake
mountains--the finest water-field of all, because more rain by far
falls there than in any place in England. But they will be wanted
to supply Lancashire, and some day Liverpool itself; for Liverpool
is now using rain which belongs more justly to other towns; and
besides, there are plenty of counties and towns, down into
Cheshire, which would be glad of what water Lancashire does not
want. At last come the Snowdon mountains, a noble water-field,
which I know well; for an old dream of mine has been, that ere I
died I should see all the rain of the Carnedds, and the Glyders,
and Siabod, and Snowdon itself, carried across the Conway river to
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