[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] rat ^ii& ' i:sap;|# A If..t. 4m--^-" THE GREAT FIRE OF 1835 (NEW YORK CITY). mitted his report in the November following. " Major Douglass ad-hered unfalteringly to the conviction that the Croton, and the Croton only, should be looked to and relied on. Like the Roman Marcius,... who, when the decemvirs and sybils indicated the Anio as the stream which the gods preferred for the supply of his aqueduct, still adhered to the cold, pure, and abundant springs from the moun-tains of Tivoli, so Mr. Douglass, disregarding difficulties real and 1 Mr. Fox was at that time the most promiiienl citizen of our Village of West Farms. GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 553 imaginary, and heeding not at all the efforts still to cause the Bronx to be preferred, held fast to the Oroton." Major Douglass disposed forever of the Bronx proposal by demon-strating thai it was impossible, by whatever expedients, to procure from the Bronx a supply which for any considerable period would be satisfactorily large. Regarding the quality of the Oroton water, he made the following interesting statements: The supplies of the Croton are derived almost exclusively from the elevated regions of the Highlands in Westchester and Putnam Counties, being furnished by the pure springs which so remarkably characterize the granitic formation of that region.