' The pilgrim oft, At dead of night, 'mid his oraison hears Aghast the voice of Time, disparting towers, Tumbling all precipitate, down-dashed, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon ;

While murmurs sooth each awful interval Of ever-falling waters ; shrouded Nile, Eridanus, and Tiber with his twins, And palmy Euphrates they with dropping locks ;

Hang o'er their urns, and mournfully among The plantive echoing ruins, pour their streams.' " Ruins of Rome.

HISTORY OF THE

PBOGBESSIYE MEASURES EOE SUPPLYING

CITY OF NEW-YORK WITH WATER.

As early as 1774, when the population of the city of New-York was only twenty-tico thousand, the Corporation commenced the construction of a reservoir and other works for supplying water ; and for the purpose of defraying the expense of the undertaking, issued a paper money, amounting to two thousand five hundred pounds, under the denomination of "Water Works Money," and bonds were executed in favor of certain individuals for land and materials to the amount of eight thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds more. A spacious reservoir was constructed on the east line of Broadway, between, what is now known as Pearl and White streets, and a well of large dimensions was sunk in the vicinity of the Collect. The war of the revolution, which commenced in 1775, and the consequent occupation of the city of New-York by the British troops, was the cause of the abandonment of the work in its unfinished state. In the year 1798, Doctor Joseph Brown addressed a