Health, however, is no less promoted by the internal, than by the external use of water ; and it is to be hoped, that but a short period will elapse, before free baths will be provided at the public expense, for the use of the poor, as well as the public

generally. Daily ablution should be regarded as necessary as daily food or sleep. The advantages which soft water possesses over hard, in the thousand economical purposes of life, are too obvious to need particular remark. The lime contained in well water, renders it inapplicable to the purposes of brewing, tanning, washing,

bleaching, and many other processes in the arts and domestic economy ; and we believe the calculation would not be found extravagant, if we should say that by the

use of the Croton water 100,000 dollars annually will be saved to the inhabitants of New- York, in the articles of soap and soda alone. When to this, we add the increased comfort and health of the citizens, from its free external and internal use, the superior cleanliness of the streets, by the washing away of all stagnant matters

in the sinks and gutters, and the consequent purity of the atmosphere, --the diminution of danger from fires, and the consequent reduction of rates of insurance, with

other important advantages too numerous to detail, we shall not consider its introduction purchased at too dear a rate, even were the expenses attending it increased

to double the actual amount.

We need not attempt to specify in detail the benefits which are likely to accrue to the city of New-York from the introduction of an abundance of pure water. Its