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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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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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king_memoir_1843_raw.txt
of sixty or more, well apparallelled, and wearing green Monmouth caps all alike, carried spades, shovels, pick-axes, and such like instru- ments of laborious employments, marching after drums twice or thrice about the cisterns, presented themselves b…
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400 miles laid down of wooden tubes, of which about twenty miles, on an average, required to be renewed every year, thus causing the whole to be renewed every 20 years. This was a monstrous annual drain, besides the public incon- venience of constant…
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to its trade. An effort was made to substitute the waters of the Regent's Canal for those of the Grand Junction, but the quantity was quite insufficient, and there- fore the unfailing Thames was resorted to, and from its exuberant bosom has been draw…
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a short distance from Waterloo Bridge, supplies some 16,000 houses with 1,500,000 gallons. This company has incurred considerable expense, by constructing reservoirs on Brixton Hill, one at an elevation of 150 feet above tide — and two others at diff…
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; the water is brought from the Crawley Springs — natural sources issuing from a bank of gravel ; they are collected in a stone reservoir, called the Fountainheads, at an elevation of 564 feet above the sea, at Leith, and 230 feet above Castle Hill. …
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of course the water for the engine well must be conducted across the river. The difficulty of such a transmission, at first sight so great, was obviated by the genius of Watt, to whom application was made. 16 62 PRELIMINARY ESSAY. " This celebrated e…
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feet, soldered lengthwise, and covered by a strip or sheet of lead of the same thickness, covering the first solder about two inches. The conduit was soldered at the joints, six feet apart, by the same material, which made a swell at that distance. O…
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water, but it became apparent, as the city grew, that resort must be had to other sources. The Seine was naturally looked to, and a Fleming, in Paris, as a Dutchman had in London, first provided the means of raising the waters of that river above its…
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various points there are galleries and staircases, to descend to the subterranean aqueduct. I descended to examine the work with M. Girard, the engineer, by a flight of steps from the cellar of a house where one of the guardians resided. " Convenient…
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inch) is generally estimated in France, as a supply for 1000 inhabitants ; which gives 0.6779 cubic feet, or a little over 5 gallons to each daily. Seine water is distributed by carriers in hogsheads or carts, for which they pay at the pumps or filte…
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nature of the soil which composes the Plain of Grenelle. On the surface it is formed of gravel, pebbles, and fragments of rock, which have been deposited by the waters at some period anterior to any historical record. Below this surface M. Mulot knew…
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too technical for our work. Again, in April, 1840, before it could be recovered, several months were spent in excavating round it. A similar occurrence created an obstacle which impeded the work for three months, but instead of being withdrawn, the d…
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an apprehension, that making the five principal arches semi-circular, he would considerably add to the expense. In the rest of the edifice, much judgment has been displayed ; no part of it has failed, or appears to have received the least injury. Thi…
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AMERICAN AQUEDUCTS. In the southern portion of our continent, a race more civilized than any of the aboriginal inhabitants of that portion of America, now constituting the United States, * Murphy's Travels in Portugal, 4to ed., p. 183. PRELIMINARY ES…
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established, confirms his testimony. In a note to page 31, of the New York edition of Black's Translation of the Essay on New Spain, this passage occurs : " The largest and finest construction of the Indians in this way, is the aqueduct of the city o…
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aqueducts of Rome ; nor restrain the indignation with which such acts of barbarism, perpetrated by Christians and civilized men, against those whom they de- nounced as pagans and savages, should be regarded and recorded. The following farther descrip…
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always in use when the other required clean- ing. A building extremely useful ; and Montezuma valued hmiself so much upon the invention, that he ordered his own effigies and that of his father, which bore a pretty near * Cronica c"e la Nueva-Espana, …
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largest public fountain is in the square fronting the palace, and close to the harbor. This supplies the shipping, and it is constantly surrounded by sailors of all nations. Captain Cooke expressed doubts about the goodness of the water for long voya…
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and six feet in depth, to which the race is excavated below the overfall of the dam, and of course, room is allowed for a continual passage of four hundred and eighty square feet of water ; these arches are on the north of the race, and the mill buil…
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diameter with stop cocks. This reservoir contains four millons of gallons. All the water, being raised into the reservoirs one hundred and two feet above low tide, fifty-six feet above the highest ground in the city, is thence conveyed to the city, b…
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The report of the superintendent of the works, for 1840, will serve to explain their present condition. Satement of the Condition of the Water Works, on the 15th of December, 1840. There are now in the city, Wooden pipes, from 1£ to 2 5 inches in dia…
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of Philadelphia is one hundred and seventy-seven gallons daily, being less than half the quantity supplied from the works of this city. " The present engines and pumps can supply, by working twelve hours each day, twenty-one million gallons of water,…
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gallons, and is divided into four apartments, two of which are for filtering. We now come to our own great work — THE CROTON AQUEDUCT. MEMOIR CROTON AQUEDUCT. MEMOIR CROTON AQUEDUCT. AT A very early day the want of a sufficient supply, and a convenie…
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west two chains and seventy-seven links, thence north fifty-three degrees, west seven chains and twelve links to Great George Street aforesaid, thence along the east side thereof north thirty-seven degrees and thirty minutes, east two chains and sixt…
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supplying the City with water, or whether the same ought to be undertaken by the Corporation, and that the monies necessary for the purpose, should be raised by tax on the citizens. CROTONAaUEDUCT. gg These proceedings were ordered to be published, b…
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be employed in the aqueduct, and such other matters incident to the supply of the city with pure and wholesome water from that or any other source, as he may think proper, and that he be requested to report his opinion to the corporation, with the re…
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its springs, then I might say with propriety, it is infinitely too small for those uses. But ad- mitting, that at present it might be competent, the time will come, and that very shortly, from the growth of the city, when this source will most certai…
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be applied ; this to me has ever appeared an insurmountable objection. The idea of supplying a large city with pure water, from a reservoir in -its centre, has al- ways seemed very strange to me." The Bronx river was the source whence both Dr. Brown …
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Bronx river, at Lorillard's snuff factory, to raise a dam six feet high, which would turn the water through a low swamp into Mill brook, to follow the north bank for three miles, and then to cross in an aqueduct to its op- posite side, and continue t…
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hence with that of Aaron Burr, we see associated the names of Alexander Hamilton, Gulian Verplanck, John Murray, and others, in remonstrance to the Common Council against the bill they had sent to the Legislature, asking for authority to execute the …