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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
To erect of granite a flight
of "geometrical" or " well-stairs," two or three hundred feet high, on the surface of the
ground, would require extraordinary skill r although in the execution every aid from
rules, measures,, and the light…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This reservoir, fourteen feet long by four and a half feet wide, is seven feet high to the
summit ol its arch ;
the walls are four and a half feet high to the springing of the arch,
and two feet…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
These
take water gratuitously from fountains of the second class, from the Seine, or from the
filtering establishments on the quay of the Celestins, sell it for 10 centimes the voire, or
two pailfuls of water about two cents for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Canvass White was employed by the Company as Engineer, and in his report to the directors, recommended that the Bronx river be the source, and that the water, being taken at
Underbill's Bridge, would yield a daily supply of…
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.
…They made a
thorough re-examination of the matter, concluding with the opinion
that "the whole [Croton] river can be brought to Murray Hill in a
close aqueduct of masonry, at an expense of $4, 250,000, " and that the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This edifice, which is appropriated to the machinery for raising water, has its foundation laid deep and strong in the rock which, at this
place, forms the bed of the Ohio. Its walls,
commencing about ten feet above low water…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
As in a subsequent part of this Memoir, we shall have occasion to detail
with some minuteness, the particulars, on all these heads, of the route finally adopted and
perfected, our readers will feel that analagous details here would be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The style of
masonry is similar to that before described for the Sing Sing
bridge, and the same method of open walls arid cast iron lining is also adopted. That
part of the bridge which has no provision for street…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Just south of the Wheeler and Ogden properties
the stone aqueduct known as High Bridge crosses the
Harlem.
South of High Bridge, not far from the junction of
Ogden Avenue and Woolfe Street, is a small stream
which was ihe…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
the facing is of reticulated masonry, and being built with black and grey pieces, has much
the appearance of a chess-board. However, these open ings having weakened too much the
higher piers, the builders were under the necessity of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In addition to the supply from the New River, this company, in fulfilment of their
contract with the London Bridge Water Works Company, have a steam engine of 100
horse power on the banks of the Thames, between Blackfriars and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Weston offered no estimates of the cost of the work he recommended, but urged
very earnestly, that no time should be lost in securing, at any rate, the right to use the Bronx
fiver, Avhich then might, as he supposed…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Commissioners
were also informed, that in excavating this canal, which sunk several feet below tide, the
wells in the vicinity were deprived of water. The fact is, as the Commissioners think,
that the same principle in respect to the…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…In the vicinity of Brandreth's mill the Croton aqueduct crosses this ravine by means of a handsome arch constructed
of solid masonry, in the most durable manner. The space between the abutments is 88 feet, and the rise from…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…For Annie" and " Ulalume," all
of which were written while he lived at Fordham.
.\nother favorite resort was the Aqueduct pathway,
leading from High Bridge to Fordham.
A recently published description of the cottage and
its surroundings says: " Two years…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Ordered, further, That the Aldermen and Assistants, be requested to set on foot,
in their respective Wards, representations to this Board, in writing, and subscribed by
the citizens, in order, more fully, to ascertain their sense, whether the Corporation ought…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Independently of the uncertainty both as to the quantity and
quality of the water which might thus be obtained, the multiplication of wells and
steam engines that would be required to produce the supply needed estimated at
4,000,000…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Immediately after them came the Fire Department of Jersey City, which had
also been invited, and were also escorted by the same Companies. It consisted of
Fire Engines No. 1 and 2, each drawn by about 40 men in fire…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It was in digging a well in 1711, that the long buried ruins of Herculaneum were
discovered, by the accidental striking upon some pieces of marble and statues, which
subsequently proved to be part of a temple, situated in the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
accordingly, to bring it across by iron pipes laid on the bottom of the river, protected by wooden frames against the
risk of accident from the anchors of vessels. The project was rejected as impracticable or inexpedient. " Some "
years after…
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the state of carbonate ; if after, as well as before, in that of sulphate. Tea may be sub- stituted for galls, to which its effects and indications are similar. Fcrro cyanide of potassium yields, with solutions of the sesqui-salts…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The cost of this work, with its improved filtering system, was about 70,000, or
$350,000. The West Middlesex Works, after the lapse of nearly a century since the erection of
the Chelsea Works, were completed in 1811. They…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Peter Jay's land, and runs thence
along the same, south, fifty-three degrees, east six chains and twenty
links to a meadow,
thence along the meadow, south sixteen degrees and thirty minutes, west two chains and
seventy-seven links…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
the head of the pipe much more rapidly than it could be supplied from the influent chamber, when the action in entering the pipe would be under comparatively a very small
head. It is therefore obvious, the discharge at the…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…89, 90, 91, 92, 95 Crosby, Enoch, 417
Cokimbia College, 63, 251, 256, 262 Crotoh, 112, 224, 436
Croton Aqueduct, 293
Columbia County, 272, 503-504 Croton Bridge, 312
Columbia Garden, 57
Columbia University, 147, 14^^. 176. Croton, Chief, 295…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
A small additional supply is doubtless obtainable from Byram river, if it
were not necessary, in availing of it, to resort to the territory as well as the waters of another State.
The running supply of the Bronx was ascertained…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…near Scarsdale
Station, but now fully one-half of the volume of water
has been diverted to the new aqueduct or pipe-line
which skirts the town on the Greenburgh bank of the
river, contributing to the water supply of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
"A
spiral passage way is cut through the rock, from the surface of the ground to
the chamber, independent of the well, round which it winds with so gentle a descent,
that persons sometimes ride up or down upon asses…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
They then roll down the side of the mountain, turn several mills as they descend,
and supply numberless reservoirs in the plain along the sides of the river, and even beyond
it,
in the Campus Martius. The lofty situation of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
He immediately commenced the
* A hoghshead is equal to 63 gallons. [Ep.J
54 PRELIMINARY ESSAY.
work, and, by the aid of a loan from King James L, who stipulated that one rnoiety of the
property should be conveyed to…