This was to be delivered into a reservoir at the Dove, a public house about '

the 24 hours. five miles from the city, and thence conveyed by pipes, to a distributing reservoir to be constructed in the Park, or some, then open ground, north of the Hospital,

94 MEMOIROFTHE Mr. Weston's plan was to take the water of the Bronx river, at Lorillard's snuff factory, to raise a dam six feet high, which would turn the water through a low swamp into Mill

brook, to follow the north bank for three miles, and then to cross in an aqueduct to its opposite side, and continue that level to the Harlem river. He states the distance to be from the Bronx to the Park, 14 miles and 7 furlongs, and the descent twenty-three feet. He " It says, appears from examinations that have been recently made, that the Bronx is sufficiently elevated above the highest parts of the city to introduce its waters therein without the use of machinery, and the intermediate ground, though very irregular, presents no obstacles which art and industry may not surmount." He also says, " An absolute necessity to preserve a regular and uniform descent, leaves us little room in the choice of our route, which will be chiefly along the shore of the North river."

Mr. Weston estimated that the city would require 3,000,000 gallons of water a clay. He states that the Little Rye pond contained fifty acres, and the Big Rye pond, five hundred acres those ponds he proposed to convert into reservoirs, by building a dam six feet ;