Sir.
I travelled today by steam-boat between London and Hangerford Bridges between half-past one and two o'clock. The two things that got on my attention were the smell and the look of the river. The river had a colour of pale brown fluid. In order to test it I tore up few pieces of white paper and dipped into the river about an inch. The colour was indistinguishable even though the sun shone brightly. This happened at St. Paul's Wharf, Blackfriars Bridge, Temple Wharf, Southwark Bridge, and Hungerford; and I have no doubt that the same thing would have occurred further up and down the river.
The smell was very bad, it was the same as that which now comes up from the sewers in the streets; feels like if the whole river a sewer. Maybe its because that I just returned from the country that the air smells bad, I was glad when entered the streets, where the air was better than that was near the river.
I have thought it a duty to record these facts, that those who are responsible for our great river; I haven’t exaggerated: they are the simply the truth. We should not allow our river Thames that go miles and through London to become a fermenting sewer. The condition in which I saw the Thames is unacceptable, if we allow this to happen even further: the river itself could be in an impossible state.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
M. FARADAY.
Royal Institution, July 7
5 comments:
what was his role in society?
why was he so concerned about this
i think he was a scientist. because he said that he had to test the river in the article.
he was concerned about it because the river Thames was in bad condition. if it stayed like that for long it would have become a sewer
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