Carrol, who had examined the Rye pond and the Bronx river, at various sites, and particularly at its junction with Mill Brook, where, according to the plan of Mr. R. Macomb, it is to be diverted, carried through Mill Brook, thence through a deep cutting to the valley of the Morrisania Creek, and so, to Macomb's Dam. The water to be taken from the Bronx, at an elevation of 52 feet, the requisite additional elevation of 70 feet to be given by machinery, propelled by the Harlem.

They had caused the waters of the Rye pond to be guaged by Mr. C. White, and they were found to yield 1,000.000 of gallons in the dry season, every 24 hours, the quality of it very good. The Committee declined giving an opinion as to the expediency or feasibility of the plan on such a light examination, but prepared a resolution to appropriate $500 for a

survey and profile of the route, and for an estimate of the cost of constructing an aqueduct. This was carried. Next year, a new set of schemes seems to have been started, one was to bring the Housatonic river to New York in an open canal, as well for purposes of commerce, as for supplying water to the city, and an act of incorporation was obtained by some citizens

of Connecticut, for this enterprise.

This project, however, soon gave way to that of constructing a canal to the city from Sharon, in Connecticut, in which the citizens of Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester Counties, in this State, and those of the Western part of Connecticut, adjoining these