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| king_memoir_1843_raw.txt | 217 | 172,824 | |
| hudson_river_source_raw.txt | 191 | 152,169 | |
| croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt | 134 | 106,888 | |
| illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt | 66 | 52,703 | |
| croton_waterworks_raw.txt | 60 | 47,579 | |
| comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt | 58 | 46,131 | |
| old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt | 50 | 39,768 | |
| croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt | 23 | 18,214 | |
| housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt | 21 | 16,692 | |
| croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt | 14 | 11,057 | |
| comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt | 5 | 3,670 | |
| housing_proposals_2024_raw.txt | 3 | 1,831 | |
| coastal_zone_waterfront_raw.txt | 1 | 246 |
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illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
and one of oxygen, 8 = 9; and in volume, of one volume of hydrogen, and half a volume of oxygen, condensed into aqueous vapor or steam we can easily calculate the specific gravity of steam, for its density will be, .0689 (Sp. gr. of hydrogen) + .5512…
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freeze and remain, exposed to the warmth of the sun-beams and the air, to be speedily dissolved upon the return of spring ! This is owing to the well known fact, that in the act of freezing a still further expansion takes place, so that the specific …
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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 make it more permeabl…
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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 vapid ; fish cannot…
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obstacle, when it pushes upwards, and welling out upon the surface, forms springs ; the water is therefore merely a modification of rain water. During its passage, however, it almost always takes up some soluble matters, which of course vary accordin…
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Carbonate of Lime,. ----„- Sulphate of Lime, > Chloride of Sodium, J Oxide of Iron, 1 Silica, 1 Magnesia, Carbonaceous Matter, J Chloride of Magnesium, ) Chloride of Calcium, / Carbonate of Magnesia, - - - - - Solid matter held in solution, -'-'--' T…
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There are many instances on record where troops have sickened and many died of putrid fever and dysentery, from drinking the water of stagnant pools and ditches or of rivers, as of the river Lee, near Cork, (Ireland,) which, in passing through the ci…
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water is owing to the air, and carbonic acid mixed with it. The air contained in water, has a larger proportion of oxygen than atmospheric air, and hence it is better adapted for the respiration of animals. The water procured from wells in the city o…
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law, no great confidence can be placed in the returns, — those carried out of the city for burial, not having been included. From a " Report on the subject of introducing pure and wholesome water into the city of Boston, by L. Baldwin, Esq., Civil En…
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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 of iron, a blue pre…
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| In the Frith of Forth, - - - 312 " I At Ritzebuttle, - - - 312 " At Apemalle, in Sleswick, - 216 " At Kiel, in Holstein, - - - 200 " Baltic Sea At Doberan, in Mecklenbergh, - - 168 " At Travemunse, .... 167 " At Zoppot, in Mecklenbergh, - - 76 " At…
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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 lime 4,000th " Of nitrate of potash 100th rvative. 1…
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the city of Lowell. The first examination was made from a sample of water taken from the source or spring-head before it had entered the leaden pipes, when the specific gravity was found to be 1,000,18. The pint, on evaporation to dryness, yielded 2.…
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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 effectual safeguard against the …
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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 dilution, from the …
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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-York, no city in the world of…
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we shall not consider its intro- duction purchased at too dear a rate, even were the expenses attending it increased to double the actual amount. We need not attempt to specify in detail the benefits which are likely to accrue to the city of New-York…
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mm iversity of California. FROM THE URHARY < >F DR. FRANCIS L I E B E R , Professor of History and Law in Columbia College, Is ow York. THK GIFT OF MICHAEL REES Of San Francisco, 1373. * l£^J -- CONSTRUCTION, COST, AND CAPACITY CEOTON AQUEDUCT, COMPI…
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have furnished or indicated much of the material used in the Essay. To Ewbank's book particular obligation is acknowledged, alike for what is to be found in its pages, and for references they afford to other sources of information. Many other miscell…
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the people, such as pilgrimages to wells, and building chapels to fountains. At the present time, in some parts of England, remains of well-worship are preserved in the custom of performing annual processions to themr decorating them with wreaths and…
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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 midst of Herculaneum, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius, 1630 years before ; and it i…
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be corrected. Yet in Joseph's well, the partition of rock be- tween the pit and the passage way, and the uniform inclination of the latter, seem to have been ascertained with equal precision as if the whole had been constructed of cut stone on the su…
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For a long period, the only mode of raising water from wells, was by letting down vases or buckets into them by a cord, but gradually the pulley and windlass succeeded, and even irrigation in Eastern countries, upon which the success of their agricul…
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chain of pots, by passing the chain through a tight tube, round or square, and for pots substituting wooden or metallic pallets or pistons, fitting the interior of the tube and pushing the water before them, was known in China from the earliest ages,…
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paces ; but in length they differ, the first being 160 paces, the second, 100, and the third, 220. All three are of a considerable depth, well walled and plastered, and contain a large quantity of water. About 120 paces distant is the spring which su…
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was carried formerly five or six leagues, the Turks have left only here and there a frag- ment remaining."* Dr. Pococke, another English traveller, who visited the same region about half a cen- tury later, presents a nearly similar account of these w…
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but walls are to be built to conduct the water through the earthy or sandy soils. Wells also, or air-holes are to be cut from the top of the water-channel to the surface, for the purpose of allowing the air .which might accumulate in the aqueduct to …
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should not be sufficiently cemented, they may be stopped by the ashes. 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 le…
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are carefully to ob- serve the manners of men and their conformation, that live around its source — and if they be of robust frame, bright complexion, without deformed limbs, or blear eyes, the stream may be surely approved. Or, if the water thrown i…
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the Aventine Hill, which might have belonged to it Forty years after the Aqua Appia was established, in the 481st year of the city, the Censor, Manlius Curius Dentatus, began the aqueduct, which afterwards was known as the Anio Vetus. The expense of …