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... Miles of wooden pipes : their disadvan- tages . Use of iron pipes adopted : their great strength and efficiency . Extent of district , number of houses , and quantity of water supplied . Steam Engine at Broken Wharf . Situation and ...
... Miles of wooden pipes : their disadvan- tages . Use of iron pipes adopted : their great strength and efficiency . Extent of district , number of houses , and quantity of water supplied . Steam Engine at Broken Wharf . Situation and ...
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... miles of the said citie , very meet , proper , and convenient to be brought and conveyed to the same ; but also hath laboured , studied , and de- vised the conveyance thereof , by conduits , vaults , and pipes , to the said city , and ...
... miles of the said citie , very meet , proper , and convenient to be brought and conveyed to the same ; but also hath laboured , studied , and de- vised the conveyance thereof , by conduits , vaults , and pipes , to the said city , and ...
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... mile distant occupy about twelve acres . from the above , between Hampstead and Highgate , are eight other reservoirs , which have likewise been con- structed on different sites of the declivity , between Caen , or Ken Wood , and ...
... mile distant occupy about twelve acres . from the above , between Hampstead and Highgate , are eight other reservoirs , which have likewise been con- structed on different sites of the declivity , between Caen , or Ken Wood , and ...
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... mile , and at length the hounds killed him at the end of St. Giles's . Great hallowing at his death , and blowing of hornes : and thence the Lord Maior , with all his com- pany , rode through London to his place in Lombard Street ...
... mile , and at length the hounds killed him at the end of St. Giles's . Great hallowing at his death , and blowing of hornes : and thence the Lord Maior , with all his com- pany , rode through London to his place in Lombard Street ...
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William Matthews. WEST , TO CHADWELL . From the Spring of Chadwell , Two miles West ; And from this Source of Amwell ; The Aquæduct meanders for the space of XL Miles : conveying Health , pleasure , and convenience , to the Metropolis of ...
William Matthews. WEST , TO CHADWELL . From the Spring of Chadwell , Two miles West ; And from this Source of Amwell ; The Aquæduct meanders for the space of XL Miles : conveying Health , pleasure , and convenience , to the Metropolis of ...
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abundance Act of Parliament adapted advantages afford amount aqueduct arches augment bagnios basin baths Bridge canal capacious channel Chelsea circumstances cisterns Commissioners conduits considerable consists Constantinople constructed contrivances convey the water conveying water diameter dimensions Dioclesian district effect elevation employed engineer erected establishments estimated expense filter formed formerly fountains furnished Grand Junction Grand Junction Canal Gyllius height Hence houses improvements inches ingenious inhabitants latter length likewise London London Bridge marble means ment metropolis miles Minutes of Evidence mode object obtained occasioned operations Ourcq pany Parliament pecuniary period persons pillars present principal probably procure proved pump purpose quantity of water Regent's Canal remarkable render reservoir river Clyde river Colne river Lea river Thames Roman Rome scheme side Sir Francis Burdett situate springs statement steam-engines stream Street supply of water Telford Thames tion tunnels various Water Companies water-works whilst whole
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Page 351 - And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew.
Page 166 - Visits each plant, and waters all the ground ; While that in pipes beneath the palace flows, And thence its current on the town bestows : To various use their various streams they bring, The people one, and one supplies the king.
Page 257 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 224 - Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Page 343 - ... trade between Putney Bridge and Greenwich ; and upon the circumstance that the eels imported from Holland can now with great difficulty be kept alive in those parts of the Thames where they were formerly preserved in perfect health.
Page 16 - Street], for to see them after the old custom. And afore dinner they hunted the hare and killed her, and thence to dinner at the head of the Conduit.
Page 51 - Now for the fruits then: Flow forth, precious spring, So long and dearly sought for, and now bring Comfort to all that love thee, loudly sing, And with thy crystal murmurs strook together, Bid all thy true well-wishers welcome hither.
Page 8 - London," tells us that, in 1439, "the Abbot of Westminster granted to Robert Large, the mayor, and citizens of London, and their successors, one head of water, containing twenty-six perches in length and one in breadth, together with all its springs in the manor of Paddington ; in consideration of which grant the City is for ever to pay to the said abbot and his successors, at the feast of St. Peter, two peppercorns. But if the intended work should...
Page 197 - Whither the great Tarquinian genius dooms Each wave impure ; and proud with added rains, Hark how the mighty billows lash their vaults, And thunder ; how they heave their rocks in vain ! Though now incessant time has roll'd around A thousand winters o'er the changeful world, And yet a thousand since, 111' indignant floods Roar loud in their firm bounds, and dash and swell, In vain ; convey'd to Tiber's lowest wave.
Page 52 - whose successful care, " assisted by the patronage of his King, " conveyed this stream to LONDON ; " an immortal work. " Since man cannot more nearly " imitate the Deity,