river, and passing through the towns of Paulding, Patterson, and south-east to Crawford's Mills on the east branch of the Croton, making a distance of forty miles. From Crawford's Mills, the route by an undulating course, requiring the construction of two tunnels,

one 1,320 yards in length, and the second 1,760 yards, reached Macomb's dam, at an elevation of 97 feet above tide ; the length of this part of the work would be 52 miles.

This scheme, like so many preceding ones, seems not to have found favor with those who were to furnish the means, which circumstance together with the misconduct of the first President, and the failure of several of the Directors, and withal an expensive law

suit, prevented any progress in the work. Accordingly, we find the Common Council again occupied next year with the ever recurring, and ever unsatisfied, want of an adequate supply of water.

Canvass White, at the request of the Mayor, S. Allen, had made an examination of the various sources of supply, and estimates of the cost of bringing water to the city by the different routes.The Report was presented to the Common Council in April, 1842. It looked to the Bronx as the source of supply. The instructions to Mr. White, were, that the water should be brought to the city at a height of 30 feet above the level of the Park.

Mr. White presented various plans and estimates, some for an open canal to Macomb's dam, and thence the water to be raised by means of the water power furnished by the dam to the requisite elevation on the New York shore ; another, for taking the water of the Bronx at the higher elevation of the Westchester cotton factory pond, and conducting it in an arched tunnel of masonry to the Harlem river, and passing it over by its own head through iron pipes.