mm * iversity of California. FROM THE URHARY < >F

DR. FRANCIS L E B E R I ,

Professor of History and Law in Columbia College, Is ow York.

THK GIFT OF

MICHAEL REES Of San Francisco, 1373.

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CONSTRUCTION, COST, AND CAPACITY

CEOTON AQUEDUCT, COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS:

TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE

CIVIC CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842,

ON OCCASION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE GREAT WORK :

PRECEDED BY A

PRELIMINARY ESSAY

ANCIENT AND MODERN A Q, U E D U C T S .

BY CHARLES KING.

NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY CHARLES KING 1843.

Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by

CHARLES KING, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, WHO BY THEIR DELIBERATE VOTE, INVITED AND CONSENTED TO THE TAXATION BY WHICH THE VAST EXPENSE OF CONSTRUCTING THE

CROTON AaUEDUCT WAS DEFRAYED ;

AND TO

THE SUCCESSIVE COMMON COUNCILS, WHO HAVE DILIGENTLY, INTELLIGENTLY, AND PERSEVERINGLY CARRIED OUT THIS VOTE TO A SUCCESSFUL AND MAGNIFICENT ISSUE,

THIS VOLUME, RECORDING THE PROGRESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OF AN ENTERPRISE, ALIKE GRAND IN DESIGN AND BENEFICENT IN RESULTS, IS INSCRIBED BY THEIR FELLOW CITIZEN,

CHARLES KING.

PREFACE IN LAYING this volume before the Common Council and the public, it may be

proper to state the circumstances under which it was undertaken.

In October last, after the Celebration which commemorated the completion of the

CROTON AQUEDUCT, the joint Committee of the Common Council, constituting the