Its reservoir is on a hill behind the town, at an elevation

of 300 feet.

The " Grandes Eaux," or famous water works of Versailles, are in like manner mere holiday play-things, which on the first Sunday of every month are exhibited for the admiration of the crowds which then throng the avenues of that beautiful and sumptuous

palace ; but at all other times, the sea-gods and the sea-horses, and the Neptunes and the

Naiads, sculptured in marble or cast in bronze, and constituting groups in and about the various basins of these fountains, are dry as the gravel walks that lead to them.

The cost* of the Croton Aqueduct was very great but once made, it is final, and its waters being distributed by its own head, there is not, as in Paris and in London, in Phila-

* TOTAL COST OF THE CROTON AGlUEDUCT. Paid for work done by contractors up to 1st April, 1843, $7,138,486 34 Incidental expenses up to same date, including salaries of engineers and Commissioners 436,860 11 Cost and rent of land for line of aqueduct 408,155 67

... ----- Actual money cost of the aqueduct to the distributing reservoir at Murray's Hill $7,983,503 12 Add, for procuring and laying water pipes

Total expenditure ------ Interest on water stock to 1st August, inclusive Sundry water loan, and other expenses ...... - - - 1,878,839 51 1,577,459 43 12,818 55

".*-'. 811,452,61961 The whole amount of stock authorised to be issued, is twelve millions of dollars. The balance unexpended will suffice to complete the high bridge over the Harlem, and henceforth the interest on the debt is to be paid from taxes.