The President of the Board then presented the boat to the Fire Department of the city, (through their chief engineer, C, V. Anderson, Esq.,) with some remarks upon the magnitude of the aqueduct through which she had been navigated, and the important results,, pecuniary and moral, which may be expected to flow from the abundance and excellence of the water, with which our citizens are hereafter to be supplied. These remarks were replied to by the Hon. Morris Franklin. The water was retained in that reservoir until the 2d July, when it was allowed to flow into the iron pipes which conduct it to the distributing reservoir. Public notice had been given sometime previous, that it would be admitted into that reservoir on the 4th of July invitations were sent to the Mayor and Common Council, and several others, to ;

attend at sunrise in the morning of that day, for the purpose of observing the first entrance of the water. At half past 4 o'clock the order was given to the chief engineer to open the stop-cocks of the influent pipes and at a quarter before 5 o'clock, ", the Croton river was in full flow. to the hour at which the water first appeared in the reservoir, few Owing early persons were present to witness the important event but shortly afterwards, the Mayor, ;

several members of the Common Council, and a number of the most respectable inhabitants of the city, visited the work, and all expressed themselves highly gratified at the its abundance and purity, and at the almost unsight of the long-wished-for Croton water, exampled perfection of all parts of the work, as indicated by its performance. A jet which threw the water from forty to fifty feet high had been prepared at 47th street, and was playing at an early hour.