…The greater population of 1840 was probably due to the inclusion in the census at that time of the numer-ous workmen employed on the Croton Aqueduct. As classified by occupations in 1845, the adult males of the county included…

…The fac-tory takes its name from the large arch of the Croton Aqueduct, which is situated near it. It was started in 1848. It has passed through numerous changes of proprietors and is at present operated by a stock…

…In the neighborhood of the aqueduct is a deep ravine which forms the dreamy region of Sleepy Hollow." (Sketch Book.) Alipkonck is entered on Van der Donck's map of 1656, and located with the sign of an Indian village…

…We walked along Main Street on sidewalks of mud or ashes, and near where the Croton Aqueduct crosses this street were rude steps of hoards and pegs. The long and handsome line of stores and neat sidewalks now to be…

…Augistixe's Romax Catholic Church. — During the building of the Croton Aqueduct through Sing Sing religious services were conducted for the laborers, who were mostly Irish Roman Catholics, by a priest. A plot of ground was purchased on the Post…

…The water commissioners shall construct an aqueduct over the Harlem River with arches and piers; the arches in the channel of said river shall he at least eighty feet span, and not less than one hundred feet from the usual…

…Still farther north, toward the old aqueduct arch over the Sing Sing road, was the home of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, from 1848 until March, 18f)2, when he was appointed to take command of the important expedition to Japan…

…Rice at its eastern end, is the high stone viaduct erected to make a way for the old Croton Aqueduct across the Pocantico River. The building of this viaduct is connected with an amusing anecdote concerning the late George Law…

…Spooner (1900)] The public mind shrank from such a tremendous and seemingly fantastic pro-ceeding as the construction of an aqueduct from the far distant Croton; whereas the Bronx, running straight down into the Harlem River, seemed to have been…

…Aside from the building of the railways, there were not many events of local importance in Westchester County from tin-completion of the Croton Aqueduct until 1850. Two new townships were erected — Ossining (1845) and West Farms (1840), and the…

…Ward Carpenter & Son, surveyors and civil engineers, so well known in Westchester County for their painstaking accuracy, with a view to determine what part of the new aqueduct, now in process of construction, lay within the township of Mount Pleasant…

…They made a thorough re-examination of the matter, concluding with the opinion that "the whole [Croton] river can be brought to Murray Hill in a close aqueduct of masonry, at an expense of $4, 250,000, " and that the…

…Aspin-wall, the latter extending well up to where the old Croton Aqueduct crosses the road. But between Broadway and the Hudson River on the west, there is the old Philipse Manor house, with the old mill just across the…

we shall not consider its intro- duction purchased at too dear a rate, even were the expenses attending it increased to double the actual amount. We need not attempt to specify in detail the benefits which are likely to accrue…

the state of carbonate ; if after, as well as before, in that of sulphate. Tea may be sub- stituted for galls, to which its effects and indications are similar. Fcrro cyanide of potassium yields, with solutions of the sesqui-salts…

for securing prisoners paid, 397, 812; another account of his, 397 C!0 Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies S3 Fairchild, Jesse — continued, (note); bailsman for Henry Simpson, 444; money paid to, 518, 521; bailsman for William Lees, 570; money paid to…

| In the Frith of Forth, - - - 312 " I At Ritzebuttle, - - - 312 " At Apemalle, in Sleswick, - 216 " At Kiel, in Holstein, - - - 200 " Baltic Sea At Doberan, in Mecklenbergh, - - 168 " At Travemunse, .... 167 " At Zoppot, in Mecklenbergh, - - 76 " At Carshamm, - - - - - 66 " The average…

about 14 feet ; and on its summit stands an Egyptian obelisk formed of red granite, 55 feet in height, and covered with hieroglyphics. At the four sides of the rock are colossal marble statues, which designate the four great rivers…

skill, patience and ingenuity, and were boldly carried along the most precipitous mountains, fre- 11 42 quently to the distance of fifteen or twenty leagues. Many of them consisted of two conduits, a short distance apart ; the larger of these…

Croton River, the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border, surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms of the city of New York, in basso relievo. . The silk on which the design is portrayed, measures 9…

some ruins and appearances of them." In describing the temple and gardens at Cusco. Garci- lasso observes, " there were five fountains of water, which ran from divers places through pipes of gold. The cisterns were some of stone, and others…

may be momentarily assuaged by wetting the mouth, or holding a thin fluid in it — yet it can only be effectually relieved by conveying into the stomach a quantity of fluid sufficient to supply the deficiency. This supply is termed…

…From means thus acquired, was this aqueduct probably provided for. These were the two great works of republican Rome, but they were cemented by the blood of slavery, and defrayed by the spoils robbed from the conquered and the oppressed…

Legislature of New-Jersey as well as that of New- York, and it was also questionable whether such obstructions could be placed in navigable rivers without in- terfering with the powers of Congress to regulate the com- merce of the…

Hagerman, 82. Hagerman, Nicholas, of Balfston, released on bail, 8r, 82. Haight, Hait, Hoyt. See Hayt, Hoit. ■-■ ''if ;- ■7 , .f-,.^ .J '.'V I04 State of New York Hail, Coenraedt, deserter from British army, 83. Hainer. See also Heyner. Hainer, Barent…

Johannis, of Albany, yeoman, bailsman for Jacob J. Truax, 507. Wyngart (Wyngaert), Peter, of Schodack, farmer, apprehended as disaffected person, 640; com- mitted, 640; released on bail, 659- Wynkoop, Cornelius E. (C. [sic]), commissioner for conspiracies, Ulster county board, appoint…

in early spring. The expansion of water during its congelation, at which time its volume increases one twelfth, and its contraction in bulk during a thaw, tend to pulverize the soil, to separate its parts from each other, and to…

…The water is also carried in canoes through all the streets, for sale, being taken from'the aqueduct in the following manner ; the canoes pass under the bridges, on which the reservoirs are placed, and men stationed above fill them…

oxidation of the lead. These * Containing 4.05 grains of solid matter to the gallon, or about one 18,000 part. 147 pipes have been highly recommended by our first chemists, and other men of sci- ence, as furnishing an…

properties of rain water. It is indeed to the presence of the two elastic gases, that rain water owes the taste which renders it palatable to animals and useful to vegetables. Ice water, being destitute of these gases is extremely…