for theimmense and immediate advantages in cases of fire derived from this reservoir, impressed more vividly upon the public mind the far greater advantages that would result from having a river at command.

Early in 1830, we find a motion made in the Common Council, to apply to the Legislature for all needful power to supply^he city with water, and to create two millions of stock to defray the cost thereof; this did not prevail but attention was earnestly aroused to the subject, and all sorts of schemes were suggested.

A memorial from Francis B. Phelps, on May 17th., proposed four different sources of supply :

1st. To bring the water from Rye Pond, the whole distance through, in 28 inch iron pipes estimated cost $2,600,000.

2d. To bring in the Croton river by an open canal, to cost $1,834,000 ; or by iron pipes, at an expense of $3,060,000. Of course no regular survey had been made. 3d. To bring the water of the Passaic, taken above the falls at Paterson, New Jersey and to cross the Hudson by iron pipes laid on the bottom of the river to cost

$1,932,000. 4th. A plan of his own, of which the particulars are not given, but which seems to

look to wells and springs, on Manhattan Island the cost $792,000.

A communication was received, in September, from Benjamin Wright, having the same object in view while a report made to the Board, concerning the supply by the ;

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