The early part of the working season of 1842 was rainy, and occasioned some solicitude lest the contractors, especially those for the dam, should not be able sufficiently to advance their work, to realise the expectations of the citizens to behold the Croton flowing in their streets on the 4th of July but after the state of the weather permitted opera- ;

tions to be resumed, the work on the dam was carried on with such diligence and energy, that the water in the Croton lake was raised sufficiently high to flow into the aqueduct with a depth of 18 inches, on the morning of the 22d June.

The report made by the Commissioners on 8th August, announces the gratifying fact that the CROTON HAD REACHED NEW YORK, and was flowing in her streets.

We give the language of the report itself, in describing this most important and interesting event. It also keeps up the record of the progress and condition of the works at the period of its date :

CROTON DAM. The work on this dam is now so nearly completed, that whenever it is considered safe and proper to do so, the quantity of water sent into the aqueduct may be increased to its full capacity. This massive structure, of which the dimensions and a description were given in the most beautiful and substantial of its kind in the last report, is supposed to be one of the world. The cut stone masonry of the overfall being now completed, with the exception of 15 or 20 feet at the southern end adjoining the waste culvert, a perfect idea can be formed of its finished appearance and this is well calculated to impress a spectator with ;