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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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the commonwealth, and diverted them for their own profit and delight, into their manors and houses, to irrigate their gardens, and to other uses." Nineteen years after the Marcian, or in the year of Rome 627, the Aqua Tepula was introduced by the Cen…
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until the time of Caligula, when the seven existing aqueducts being found insufficient for the increase of luxury and popu- lation, this emperor, in the 789th year of Rome, began two new ones. These were finish- ed by the Emperor Claudius with great …
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different emperors, and Lanuvium was surrounded with the villas of the great. At length when a dreadful succession of Lombards, Franks, and Saracens destroyed the houses, pavements, drains, crops, plantations, and cattle which had protected the Cam- …
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low level it could not affect the other waters, but the Anio Novtis being of a lofty level and unfailing in its stream, was occasionally used, when the other aqueducts were falling off in their supply, to make good the deficiency, and hence all were …
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upon forty-eight immense pillars, disposed in rows, so as to form five aisles within the edifice, and sixty arches." The castellaMvere of three kinds, public, private, and domestic.}: The public castella which received the water of the aqueduct, were…
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compressing or extending the lead. Pipes which did not require any calix were term ed solutce* The fact referred to in the last paragraph, of the increase and diminution of the quantity of water flowing through a tube, by altering its shape, is of su…
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the water, and by eventually raising its level, occasioned breaks in the channel, whence the waters escaping, not only destroyed it, but the sub-structures of every kind in the vicinity.* All work of repair, was however, as much as possible suspended…
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magnificent erections — nor of the periods respectively occupied for their con- struction— nor of the nature ot the labor employed upon them. Of the Anio Vetus, Frontinus merely relates, that it was built from the spoils taken from Pyrrhus — and of t…
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diverted to private houses and gardens.t It is remarkable, and quite an object of regret, that Frontinus, whose details as to the aqueducts are in other respects so copious, has left no record of the rate of this tax, of the principle on which it was…
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PATERE. ET. CIRCA. RIVOS. Q.VI. SVB. TERRA. ESSENT. ET. SPECVS. VLTRA. VRBEM. CONTINENTIA. .SIDIFICIA. VTRAQVE. EX. PARTE. Q.VINOS. PEDES. VACVOS. RELINQ.VI. ITA. VT. NEQ.VE. MONVMENTVM. IN. IIS. LOCIS. NEQVE. .EDIFICIVM. POST. HOC. TEMPYVS. PONERF. …
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Those who suppose that the object of the aqueduct was to conduct water to the amphitheatre only, instead of being appropriated to the domestic uses of the inhabitants, have not regarded with attention the peculiarities of its construction. The simpli…
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terminating the second story. The total height, according to the same author, is 161 feet ; namely, 66 feet for the first range, 66 feet for the second range, and 21J feet for the third range to the top of the flags covering the water channel ; the w…
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Nismes, and who, by this means, endeavored to force the citizens to surrender. It remained in this state until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the Duke de Rohan, in order to make a passage for his artillery, perforated the piers of the …
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in this construction were one foot nine inches PRELIMINARY ESSAY. 33 long, one foot broad, and one and a half inches thick ; the cement of one of the aqueducts at the bottom is six inches thick, and one and a half thick on the sides ; about two feet …
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which more than sixty, in Delorme's time, were remaining. This was terminated by a reservoir, whence the water, in like manner as before, descended by pipes into another valley, and in part passed it and the river Baunan, over a bridge of a reversed …
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the one to the other, preserved the same dimension throughout. Delorme says that the water in the emitting reservoir, was higher by one foot than that in the receiving one ; but Mr. Villar, a man of science, resident at Lyons, took the level, and fou…
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was sufficient to fill all the syphons ; without this precaution the volume of Avater, which might have risen to 4 feet, would have been too great. It is probable that the regulating vane or sluice could be raised, or lowered, at pleasure to allow fo…
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circumstances would have completely arrested the completion of the underta- king ; and the more so, as these valleys were neither all, nor the greatest across which th* 10 38 PRELIMINARY ESSAY. water had to be conducted. The resources of the architec…
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diameter than those of the others, as appears by the parts at present in existence ; and Delorme thinks that the emitting reservoir was like the receiving tanks, which are seen near the wall of the city of Lyons, and conducted the water by an aqueduc…
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air and light. From these cisterns the water was distributed as desired. The grand fountain in the Court of the Lions was thus fed. The fountain was in the centre of this magnificent O court. Twelve lions support on their backs an alabaster basin, ri…
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is four hundred feet long, and the top is covered with large marble slabs of dazzling 11 42 PREL1MINARYESSAY. brilliancy. On the side next the reservoir, a substantial marble balustrade, three feet in height, gives a finish to this Cyclopean undertak…
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were about two hundred feet apart. These pits were convenient for giving air and light beneath, and also afforded a ready means of getting rid of the excavated earth and rocks. It is possible, that at the period when these tunnels were made, the pits…
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the cost of a canal or series of pipes, we should be compelled to raise it again, by the expensive agency of steam or some other costly apparatus. The frequent exposure of the water to air and light at the summit of these sooterays, is another very i…
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of overflowing fountains. The anarchy of the middle ages, as has been already stated, led to the destruction, among other works of art, of the aqueducts, and the Romans were again reduced to wells and springs, and the Tiber. A precarious supply of pu…
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against the practicability of obtaining that quantity which the Cardinal anticipated, on account of the small declivity of the channel of the aqueduct, and the variations in the levels of the lake itself. The Pope having directed new experiments and …
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this species of magnificence, we may easily judge, when we consider that they had, undoubtedly, both the taste and the materials requisite for it. Their aqueducts, which supplied them with water, even to prodigality, still remain, striding across val…
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to open before, and the waters to swell around, him. Two sea- horses, conducted by two tritoris, drag the chariot of the god, and emerging from the caverns of the rock, shake the brine from their manes ; while the obedient waves burst forth in torren…
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his " Survey of London," in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, gives this account of the source and supply of water to the city : " Anciently, until the Conqueror's time, and for 200 years afterwards, the citie of Lon- don was watered (beside the famous r…
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work, for in 1590 it was still unfinished. It was, however, finally accomplished ; a succession of reservoirs at different levels was constructed, each communicating with the other, and through two mains of seven inch bore, the neighborhood of St. Gi…
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Company r, the proprietor sold out for £38,000, to one Soames, citizen and goldsmith of London, who made a joint stock of the concern, and obtained from the corporation the lease of another arch. Subsequently the use of two more arches was granted to…