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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
But as even this permission opened a door for great abuses, from the fraudulent conduct of the aquarii, who damaged the ducts for the purpose of selling the aqua caduca, a
remedy was sought by the institution of castella privata…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In the course of a few hours the water rose to the
surface and discharged itself at the rate of 600,000 gallons per hour. The depth attained
was six hundred and two yards. The pipe by which the water…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
However grateful this may be to
our feelings, it does not follow that it is equally conducive to healthfor whatever degree
;
of purity it may now possess, the period is not very remote, when from the natural increase
of the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
And in consequence, a report made by Alderman Samuel
Stevens, in favor of the establishment of a well and reservoir in Fourteenth-street,
whence water might be distributed, was accepted and acted upon. In that Report, Mr. Stevens says :
Various…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
one inch and a quarter in lengths of nine feet and formed by spigot find faucet, that
is,the end of each pipe is widened, in order to receive within it the intrant end of the
preceding pipe, which is…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
He also feared that in
such a crooked line as the work would be obliged to follow, the angles of the masonry
would be weak, while the velocity of the water, by reason of the crooks in the channel,
would…
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
…Cow bay, 229
Cripplebush road, 145
Cromwells creek, 105, 108
Cropsey avenue, 167
Cross road, 66
Croton, 92
Croton aqueduct, 117
Croton reservoir, 66, 71
Cushetonk hills, 204
Cypress avenue, 106, 222
INDIAN NOTES
INDEX 249
Dankers, see Sluyter and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Numerous wells of great antiquity are still to be seen in Egypt, and among the
ruins of Ninevah, a city of which the foundation was laid by Ashur, the son of an
antediluvian, is a remarkable well which supplies the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
This water, the most wholesome of any conveyed to Rome, was drawn from springs,
in the neighborhood of Subiaco, on the Anio, 20 miles above Tivoli, in the mountains. These sources were 36 miles from Rome, on the Yia Valeria…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The number
of these towers anciently, as well as of the towers springing from them, must have been
prodigious, as Agrippa alone, if we may believe Pliny, erected one hundred and thirty of
the former, and opened one hundred and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Absence from this place, on official business, prevented me, until the 16th instant,
from receiving your polite invitation to join the Common Council of New York, in celebrating the introduction of the Croton water into your great city. The object…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
While the authorities of this city are thus obliged to give up the pleasure you tender
to their acceptance, they avail themselves of the opportunity, to offer their warm congratulations to their sister city upon her successful accomplishment of this…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Eagle Engine Company No. 4, painted red, with blue and gold, drawn by 60
men same uniform. Constitution Engine Company No. 7 painted white and blue drawn by 125
"
men same dress as above. Motto, Ready and Willing."
American Engine…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It is a characteristic of this work, that the credit attached to it, belongs pre-eminently to no individual, but is diffused, though in unequal degree, throughout an extensive circle. Fortunately, the field of commendation is so large, that each…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Water leaps as if delighted,
While her conquered foes retire! Pale Contagion flies affrighted
With the baffled demon, Fire! Safety dwells in her dominions,
Health and Beauty with her move,
And entwine their circling pinions
In a sisterhood of love…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
vacuum, and demonstrated that the rising of water in the chamber of the pump, was produced by atmospheric pressure. As human beings were aggregated into larger societies, and the progress of civilization and refinement produced new and artificial wants, all…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Aqueducts of tubes have this advantage if any
damage happen, any person may
rectify it, and water from earthen tubes is far more wholesome than that from pipes, as
the use of lead is found to be pernicious. We should…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Disbrow proposed to supply the city by an Artesian
well and reservoir in each ward. But, inasmuch as the product of these wells is limited,
even supposing, what is by no means certain, that the multiplication of them at different…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
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tra thickness) has been constructed, and covered with earth to protect the sides and top
from frost ;
the earth covering being secured by turfing carried over from parapet to
parapet. The work presents a very substantial…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
I have reason to love the State of New York, not merely like all her sons, but
I owe her a debt that few are ever permitted to incur. If, short of Heaven, I have an object paramount to her…
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.
…The writer had the honor of being Chief Engineer of the Aqueduct Commission of the City of New York , from January Ist , 1900 , to October 14th , 1903. During his incumbency the new Croton Dam was under construc- tion . The purpose…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
distributions, or extraordinary grants, to places or individuals.
Castella Prlvata. When a number of individuals, living in the same neighborhood,
had obtained a grant of water, they clubbed together and built a castellum^ into which the
whole quantity allotted to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
"From that period up to the year 1816, the whole subject was apparently lost sight of,
notwithstanding that for several of the intervening years, the growth of the city was
more rapid, and its prosperity, and increase in wealth, more…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Next year, a new set of schemes seems to have been started, one was to bring the
Housatonic river to New York in an open canal, as well for purposes of commerce, as
for supplying water to the city, and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The bridge across
the Croton River, which was made in lieu of the one overflown by the water of the
river, and the portion of the turnpike also required to be made, are both done, as well as
the private…
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 Haskin property, extending east
from the Croton Aqueduct to the valley of the Mill
Brook, were the Butler, Berrian, Bassford and Fisher
farms, now mostly cut up into village lots and fiist
improving. Just west of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
RIVIS. SPECVBVS. JVLIJE. MARCIJE. APPIJE. TEPVLJE. ANIONIS. REFICIENDIS. Q.. D. E. R. F. P. D. E. R. 1. C. VTI. CVM. n. RIVI. FORNICES. Q.VOS. AvGUSTVS. C.KSAR. SE. REFECTVRVM. IMPENSA. SVA. SfiNATVI. POLLICITVS. EST. REFICERENTYR. EX. AGRIS. PRIVATORVM…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In France it has been generally estimated at 19,195 litres (one inch)
for 1,000 inhabitants. The Scotch engineers do not consider the supply complete at less
lhan nine gallons a day for each individual in a city. If…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
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The great inducements stated in the Report, for resorting to the Croton, are, the purity of its waters, their unfailing abundance for
any possible population in the city, and
the elevation of their bed, which would…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
When he states that the water
can be delivered .in the city, at an elevation of 125 feet, while his fountain is only of that
height ;
that the pipes will rise gradually until they pass Sing Sing, which, in effect…