be the works of conquerors and kings, they have not equalled in forecast of design, and beneficence of result, the noble aqueduct, constructed at their own cost, by the freemen of the single city of New York.

THE CELEBRATION OP THB

FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842.

THE CELEBRATION FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842

IT was natural that so great an event as the completion of the Croton Aqueduct, should be deemed by the citizens, at whose cost and through whose constancy it had been constructed, worthy of some public celebration.

We have seen how the Lord Mayor and citizens of London honored the introduction into that city, of the New River ; and the memory of the imposing ceremonial in our own city, upon the marriage of the Lakes with the Ocean by the completion of the Erie Canal, was a precedent too recent and too agreeable, to be departed from.

Accordingly on the 5th July, in the Board of Aldermen, Alderman Lee presented the following preamble and resolutions, viz :

Whereas, The important work of introducing the waters of the Croton River in the city of New York is now completed, and in such a manner that it cannot be viewed without a feeling of pride at its execution a work upon which posterity will look back ;

to those who transmitted the blessing with veneration, and that will be for ever remembered as an evidence of the liberality of the citizens of New York, the importance of which is equalled only by the legacy handed down to us by the sires of the Revolution, for, while the one ensures to us prosperity, together with freedom and religious liberty, the other secures to us and our posterity that health, without which all other blessings dwindle into insignificance :