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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Here stood anciently, a beautiful fountain, adorned with the finest marbles and columns ;
and on the top was a bronze statue of Jupiter, from which
issued great plenty of water, as may be seen on the reverse
of one of…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
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Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Old Croton Aqueduct, 95,000,000 gallons; Bronx River Conduit, 28,000,000 gallons; New Croton Aqueduct, 300,000,000 gallons-- total,
425^000,000 gallons. With the completion of the works now in their
last stages, the supply obtainable…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Claudius established another company of fountaineers,
to about 460 persons, divided into differduring the erection of his aqueduct, amounting
ent classes, and with distinct duties. There were the comptrollers, the keepers of the
castellum, inspectors, paviours, stuccoers, and other
workmen…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…No more
;
marble was discovered by constructing the aqueduct until it reached Harlem river, where
in excavating two of the coffer dams to obtain foundation for the piers, marble rock was
found in the bed of the river. This is…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Though we have evidence that concrete was used by the
Ancient Romans in the foundations of some of their structures and even in the formation of their roads --such as the
Appian-Way, and though we find it used in…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Heat is communicated through water in a different manner, from that observed in
relation to solids, for it is not conducted as in them, from one particle to another,
but carried with the parts of the fluid by means of…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Commissioners reported in
favour of its use, though far away; and in May, 1837, the construction of
an aqueduct from a point six miles from its mouth to the metropolis was
begun. At the head of the aqueduct a dam…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…No part of the fund created by this act, or any other fund raised for the purpose of constructing or completing- the Croton Aqueduct, and the works connected therewith, and distributing the water throughout the city, shall be diverted from…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Some trainers have so much fear of hard or strange water, that they carry
with them to the different courses the water that the animal has been accustomed to drink and what they
know agrees with it."
;
to increase that…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Thus it is greater in infancy and childhood than in adult age, and
less in old age ; it is greater in women than in men ; it is varied by constitution and
temperament ; by climate ; season ; the nature of the diet…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Samuel Stevens, in behalf of the committee of fire and water,
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that reviewed the whole ground, the various plans that had at different times been
projected, and indicated that, which, in the judgment of the committee, was…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the Decemvirs and Sybils indicated the Anio, as the stream
which the Gods preferred for the supply of his aqueduct, still adhered to the cold, pure,
and abundant springs from the mountains of Tivoli, so Mr. Douglass, disregarding difficulties, real…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The popular voice having thus pronounced, by an overwhelming majority, in favor of
the Croton Aqueduct, the Corporation lostno time in passing an ordinance, dated 7th of
May, instructing the Commissioners at once to proceed in the work, according to…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Hard water is a less perfect solvent of organic matter than soft
water; hence in the preparation of infusions and decoctions, and for many economical purposes, as making tea and coffee, and brewing, it is much inferior to soft
water…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…the possession of Campania and the plunder of Samnium, in a gigantic undertaking, in the building of an enormous aqueduct, and the planning of the most remarkable highway of the Roman empire.
At this time the Romans as well as…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Dr. Dana, of Lowell, has lately investigated
this subject and detected lead in the water which had passed through the leadenpipes for the distribution of water in the city of Lowell. The first examination
was made from a sample of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…correct these and other evils, and to establish the space that should be left vacant on each
side of the subterranean course of an aqueduct, and about its sources, superstructure, &c. Around the latter, a space was to be left…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…select for more special
description and detail, the chief water works of England, and of France, and the
magnificent aqueduct of Lisbon. London, like Rome, was already a large and populous city, before its supply of water
was copious or…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
" The
largest and finest construction of the Indians in this way, is the aqueduct
of the city of Tezcuco. We still perceive the traces of a great mound, constructed to
heighten the level of the water. How must we admire…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…What was its direction beyond, it was impossible to
determine, but it certainly did not pass under the palace, as has been supposed."
A fine modern aqueduct was built at Rio Janeiro, in 1740, in imitation of that of
Lisbon…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…wooden aqueducts on canals,) it will be liable to go
down suddenly, and thus cause a breach in the aqueduct that will be difficult to repair in
time to meet the wants of the city. The work may be destroyed…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The water has since continued to flow with a depth in the aqueduct of about two feet,
and delivering into the receiving reservoir about 12,000,000 imperial gallons per day. No
accident has occurred to interrupt its regular performance…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct and its appurtenances have been subjected to the trial of near seven
months, and I have endeavored to detail fully the effect the water has produced, and the
prospect of its capacity to fulfil, with regularity and permanence…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…After all, we have followed but at a respectable distance ancient Rome, with her nine
aqueducts, some of which were longer than the Croton Aqueduct, and together were
capable of supplying 250,000,000 of gallons per day. But history…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The diminution of the fluid part of the body, is the cause of an uneasy sensation,
indicating the necessity of repairing the waste of fluids, which we familiarly call
thirst. This is a sensation connected with some natural state of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Owing to some intrigue, however, of Appius, Plautius resigned his station before the
expiration of two years, and Appius alone, therefore, enjoyed the honor of giving his name
to the aqueduct, and to another noble work, which, by prolonging his…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the other side is the Queen of Cities, calling attention to a picture, representing the
Dam at the Croton River, the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border,
surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
La Plata too, and Danube's streams unite
Their liquid treasures, copious, clear and bright.'
" During the summer, it is the custom occasionally to permit the water to overflow the whole square, for the entertainment of the people ; and on…
Hill, William R. Modifications of the Plan of the New Croton Dam. Paper read before the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 1904. Pamphlet T 462, Cornell University Library.
…Thereupon he recommended to the Aqueduct Commissioners that this entire section of the embank- ment and core wall to the gatehouse be removed and the stone dam extended in its place . But while maintaining that the conditions allowed of no…