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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Rhodes or by the Common
Council, that the Commissioners should place much reliance upon the plans and propositions of a gentleman, .who appears to have given the subject but a very superficial consideration at most. How he is to convey…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The estimated cost of carrying the bridge up to its contemplated height, from the
point or position in which it will be, on the 1st of July next, will amount to $596,779. After the water is introduced, by these…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
the water of the spring in question would necessarily rise to the surface, because, in the
well at Elbeuf, which is nearly nine yards above the level of the sea, the water rises from
twenty-seven to twenty-nine yards…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
ingly find this to be the case. Until within the last few years, the water on the elevated
ground in Broadway, was considered to be the best in the city. In the progress of improvement, this water is now hard…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
them will probably require bearing piles to support them, and rock is expected to be
found for the other. The coffer dams are all put down and embanked, and the work of
emptying them is soon to commence. A temporary…
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.
…After crossing
the Harlem River over the high bridge already described, it passes the
Manhattan valley by an inverted siphon of iron pipes, 4, 180 feet in length,
and the Clendening valley on an aqueduct 1,900 feet. It then…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The
smaller pipes which led from the main to the houses of private persons, were called
punctoe ; those inserted by fraud into the duct itself, or into the main after it had left the
castellum, fistula, illicitce.
The erogatio was…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
On examination of the stream
that issues from the hole, it will be found to taper off considerably at half an inch from the
distance of half the diameter of the hole. If a short tube of the same diameter…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The machinery for lifting, and the reservoirs on Harlem heights, which were to be 120 feet above tide, were to
cost $50,000 more. And the three lines of twelve inch iron pipe, calculated to convey
2,000,000 gallons…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This, together with the consideration, that
the supervision and maintenance of the pipe on the bridge, will be more simple and less
expensive, and consequently more satisfactory than that in the tunnel, have induced me
to give the preference to…
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.
…For the purpose of reaching a point where the core wall would have a lesser height , the Aqueduct Commis- sioners on Sept. 16th , 1896 , on the recommendation of the former Chief Engineer , authorized him to extend the main stone dam…
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.
…For the purpose of reaching a point where the core wall would have a lesser height , the Aqueduct Commis- sioners on Sept. 16th , 1896 , on the recommendation of the former Chief Engineer , authorized him to extend the main stone dam…
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.
…For the purpose of reaching a point where the core wall would have a lesser height , the Aqueduct Commis- sioners on Sept. 16th , 1896 , on the recommendation of the former Chief Engineer , authorized him to extend the main stone dam…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…The Dutch Reformed or Reformed church stands upon rising ground
en the north side of the road leading from the village of Fordham to
Kings Bridge near Jerome Park, close to the line of the Croton Aqueduct.
A still older…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
A long bamboo with a large weight of earth at the extremity, is fastened to the
end of the Jantu next the river, and passing over the gallows before mentioned, poises up
the Jantu full of water, and causes it…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Such are in general the fountains and cascades
that adorn public walks and palace gardens and such the so much celebrated water-
;
works of St. Cloud, Marli, and Versailles inventions which can be considered only as
pretty play -things, calculated…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Van Sleb, who visited Egypt several
times in the 17th century, says some of the people in his time thought it Avas digged by
spirits ;
and he adds, " I am almost inclined to believe it, for I cannot conceive how…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
But when it was required to conduct water at less expense, tubes of earthen-ware were made, having a thickness of not
less than two inches, and these tubes were so formed that one end being tongued, the
one entered…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Beneath the marl and clay, the boring-rods had to perforate pure gravel, plastic clay, and finally chalk, which forms the bottom of the basin in
which the tertiary strata have been deposited. No calculations or geological knowledge
could determine…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
river, and passing through the towns of Paulding, Patterson,
and south-east to Crawford's
Mills on the east branch of the Croton, making a distance of forty miles. From Crawford's Mills, the route by an undulating course, requiring…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Caligula the dupe of favorites the slave of lust stupid, bloody and rapacious.
We have said these aqueducts were cemented with the blood of slavery, and such
undoubtedly was the fact, although we have no direct testimony to offer in…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
They suffered formerly at
Philadelphia in the same manner as ourselves, when at one time they had six lines of
wooden pipes leading their water to the city, which they finally abandoned, and substituted iron pipes of large diameter. " There…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
wall, laid on the face of the embankment, which slopes 1| horizontal to one vertical. The
embankments are raised four feet above the top of water line, and are 18 feet wide on the
top, excepting the high banks on…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The size of the rods diminished
in proportion to the depth, and as the subterranean water was not reached so soon as was
expected, it became requisite five several times to enlarge the diameter of the bore, to admit
of…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Or, boiled in a like vessel,
and left to cool, if, when poured off, there shall be neither sand nor earth left at the bottom, it may be deemed good. Again, if vegetables boiled in it be rapidly cooked, it…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The bed of the river is about 18 feet below common high water mark. The
channel is not this depth for its whole width, but slopes very flat on the sides. The outline of the plan, is to make a…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
covering of ice for three months in the year, we should think the cutting off so much of
the navigation would produce more injury than the privilege of proceeding to Albany on
the ice, or of procuring a 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.
…The beginning of the gigantic Croton Aqueduct enterprise dates
from about the same time as the chartering of the first Westchester
County railroad. On November 10, 1832, the joint committee on
tire and water of the New York City common…
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.
…No new village was incorporated between 1830 and 1810. .This
decade is memorable for the projection of the first railway enterprise in which Westchester County was interested, ami the inception
and approximate completion of the grand Croton Aqueduct.