Excerpt from Papers Relating to the Introduction of Pure Water Sometime about the' year 1825, as you may be aware, Mr. Treadwell was appointed by the city au thorities to investigate the subject and report on the best mode of supply. Spot Pond was presented to his notice, and with the assistance of Mr. Moody, he made estimates on this source. This project seems to have been abandoned through the apathy of the councils, or for some other reasons. During Mr. Lyman's administration, Mr. L. Baldwin was engag ed to survey and report on the best mode of supply, according to his judgment. Of the result and nature of his report you are aware. The generality of persons, seem either to have lost sight, or to have entirely overlooked the expense of raising water by steam power. I presume they have assumed for their standard of comparison, the old works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia, where engines and'boilers ill adapted to the purpose were used, con suming immense quantities of fuel. As well might we base our calculations of the effective power of a locomotive engine and rail road, at the present day, on the performances of the same machine twenty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.