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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The result is, that all that part of the city lying above Grandstreet on Broadway, or Pearl-street on the east side of the city, has not the use of the
Manhattan water for the purpose of extinguishing fires. It…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
to time, and in such amounts as they may think fit, a sum not exceeding two million five
hundred thousand dollars, by the creation of a public fund or stock, to be called, " The
Water Stock of the City of…
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about 14 feet ; and on its summit stands an Egyptian obelisk formed of red granite, 55 feet in height, and covered with hieroglyphics. At the four sides of the rock are colossal marble statues, which designate the four great rivers…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The excessive labor and inconvenience of this practice, led to the formation
of vast tanks for the collection of water, from which it might be conducted in open
channels to the points proposed. In comparison with some of these tanks…
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skill, patience and ingenuity, and were boldly carried along the most precipitous mountains, fre- 11 42 quently to the distance of fifteen or twenty leagues. Many of them consisted of two conduits, a short distance apart ; the larger of these…
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 greater population of 1840 was
probably due to the inclusion in the census at that time of the numerous workmen employed on the Croton Aqueduct. As classified by
occupations in 1845, the adult males of the county included 4…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
20,000 pounds wrought iron bolts, straps and spikes, at 12 cents - -
$2,400
Pin timber and treenails 250
Carpenter and other work, framing, sinking, and securing frame -
30,000
Driving 2,000 feet lineal of sheet piling, at $2…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
All the difficulty and danger inseparably connected with the use of coffer dams, of the great size and depth required for this pier, have
been successfully overcome, and the masonry will, in a few weeks, be raised above the
high…
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.
…rcupie
CHAPTER
GENERAL
XXIY
FROM THE REVOLUTION
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY CONTINUED
TO THE COMPLETION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT (1842)
the organizaN a previous chapter we have briefly noticed
tion of the State government of New York on the 20th…
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some ruins and appearances of them." In describing the temple and gardens at Cusco. Garci- lasso observes, " there were five fountains of water, which ran from divers places through pipes of gold. The cisterns were some of stone, and others…
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may be momentarily assuaged by wetting the mouth, or holding a thin fluid in it — yet it can only be effectually relieved by conveying into the stomach a quantity of fluid sufficient to supply the deficiency. This supply is termed…
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Legislature of New-Jersey as well as that of New- York, and it was also questionable whether such obstructions could be placed in navigable rivers without in- terfering with the powers of Congress to regulate the com- merce of the…
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.
…The Croton aqueduct, begun
1837 and completed 1842, passes along the brow of
Valentine's, (iun and Tetard's Hills. 2. The Bronx
River water supply, determined upon in 1879 and
opened September 9, 1884, is carried in a forty…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Whether a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome water could be obtained
for present and all future purposes.
2d. The practicability of its introduction into the city, at an elevation that would
preclude the use of machinery. And
3d. The…
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in early spring. The expansion of water during its congelation, at which time its volume increases one twelfth, and its contraction in bulk during a thaw, tend to pulverize the soil, to separate its parts from each other, and to…
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oxidation of the lead. These * Containing 4.05 grains of solid matter to the gallon, or about one 18,000 part. 147 pipes have been highly recommended by our first chemists, and other men of sci- ence, as furnishing an…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
These views of private interest and speculation, were aided by the real difficulty, which
intelligent and practical men apprehended, in raising the money needed for such an undertaking as the introduction of the Bronx river into the city, and hence…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
288 CELEBRATION OF THE
The Printing Press was the same that Benjamin Franklin had worked upon in
London, and on the same car was one of the new fashioned ones of our day, occupied in
striking off an ode written…
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properties of rain water. It is indeed to the presence of the two elastic gases, that rain water owes the taste which renders it palatable to animals and useful to vegetables. Ice water, being destitute of these gases is extremely…
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of the country, is to be found in the impure water, with which the former are so generally supplied, and we may confidently predict, that in consequence mainly of the introduction of the Croton River into the City of New…
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.
…Camp's entrance-gate, on the site now occupied by the embankment of the Croton Aqueduct, stood the residence of
Richard Morris, colonial judge of Vice Admiralty,
and afterwards second chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
If deemed necessary to build a lock in the
centre, or channel of the river, it would add to the expense from one to two hundred thousand dollars more. The advantages to be derived, Mr. Seymour states, will be, 1st…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
responsibility of changing the plan of the Commissioners ;
and now, believing it to be
our duty to carry into effect that plan which shall require the least expenditure, and
which may be completed in the shortest time, while it takes…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The Commissioners repeat this suggestion without expressing an
opinion concerning it, but in referring to the rapid execution of the general work they say
" there is
hardly a doubt that the whole line from the Croton to the Harlem, will…
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of water flowing on such occasions. With such opportunities to become acquainted with the changes of the stream they could not fail to know the quantity of water flowing at periods of the highest freshets, and know- ing it, to…
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together with his personal observation, for the subject matter of his report. In a report made to the Board of Aldermen in January, 1833, it was suggested that the failure of the law asked for the year previous, was in…
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ments of Van Helmont and Mr. Boyle, who maintained that it could be changed into all vegetable substances, as well as into earth ; but it was substantially held until the middle of the last century, (1781,) when Mr. Cavendish proved…
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life. Water, therefore, which is transparent, colorless, inodorous, and tasteless, is called good and pure, and none other can be called such ; though some medical writers are of opinion, that it is not necessary it should be in this pure…
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Of acetate of soda a 100th part of the water is a prese: Of arseniate of soda 12,000th " Of phosphate of soda 30,000th " Of hydriodate of potash 30,000th " Of muriate of soda 2,000th Of sulphate of…
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; 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…