The immense effort in penetrating high hills, and in crossing deep valleys, can only be judged of by a personal view of the vast amount of labor performed by the physical strength of man."

This- Report of the Commissioners, especially in that part of it that commented on the Report made by the Board of Assistants in favor of a high bridge, and on the resolution given in a preceding page, which that Board, in conformity with the Report, passed seems to have touched that body and as the Commissioners had alway addressed their communications to the Board of Aldermen, the Assistants passed the following resolution :

Resolved, That the Water Commissioners be requested to communicate to this Board, as a constituent branch of the Common Council, a copy of their late semi-annual Report, to the end that this Board may take such action thereon as the nature thereof may require, and that the Clerk forthwith communicate a copy of this Resolution to the said Commissioners.

Adopted by the Board of Assistants, January 2, 1839.

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Moreover, the landowners and others, who were contending for the uninterrupted navigation of the Harlem, abandoning their contemplated appeal to the U. S. Courts, addressed themselves to the Legislature. The efforts made were successful, and the following law was passed on 3d May, 1839.

AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CROTON AQUEDUCT SHALL PASS THE HARLEM RIVER. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :