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... from the well in Duck Island ; but Mr. Hawksley states in his evidence , that he entertains no doubt that a considerable supply of water water can be procured in the neighbourhood of his works iv REPORT FROM THE THE SERPENTINE;
... from the well in Duck Island ; but Mr. Hawksley states in his evidence , that he entertains no doubt that a considerable supply of water water can be procured in the neighbourhood of his works iv REPORT FROM THE THE SERPENTINE;
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... doubt ? -Yes ; I have not only considered the depth of the mud , but I have considered that which was most important of all - the question of the character of the mud . If I bad found the mud undergoing decomposition , I should have ...
... doubt ? -Yes ; I have not only considered the depth of the mud , but I have considered that which was most important of all - the question of the character of the mud . If I bad found the mud undergoing decomposition , I should have ...
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... doubt that the mud cannot pass into a state of fermentation or putrefac- tion , unless assisted by heat . 128. With respect to the water passing down the Serpentine , you may remem- ber the discussion which took place in the House of ...
... doubt that the mud cannot pass into a state of fermentation or putrefac- tion , unless assisted by heat . 128. With respect to the water passing down the Serpentine , you may remem- ber the discussion which took place in the House of ...
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... doubt about that . 176. You mentioned just now the number of grains per gallon of impurity in the water in St. James's Park ; have you made any experiment yourself ? —Yes ; and I know that Dr. Bostock made an analysis of the water from ...
... doubt about that . 176. You mentioned just now the number of grains per gallon of impurity in the water in St. James's Park ; have you made any experiment yourself ? —Yes ; and I know that Dr. Bostock made an analysis of the water from ...
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... doubt that if you sunk a deep well , it would be about 200 or 250 feet to the chalk ; that a small quantity of water would be obtained from that source ; perhaps 200 or 300 gallons per minute , but that would be no better than this ...
... doubt that if you sunk a deep well , it would be about 200 or 250 feet to the chalk ; that a small quantity of water would be obtained from that source ; perhaps 200 or 300 gallons per minute , but that would be no better than this ...
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26 March adits amount analysis believe bottom Buckingham Palace Gardens Captain Archdall Chelsea Water clay clean Committee concrete confervæ consider cost deposit doubt drain drainage Duck Island water Easton effect engine estimate evaporation expense feet filled filter beds filter-beds filtered water filtration fresh water gallons a day gallons a minute Hawksley Hawksley's impurity inches James's Park lake Joseph Locke Kensington Gardens lime Lord Fermoy Lord John Manners March Metropolitan Railway million gallons millions of gallons opinion organic matter overflow peat pipe present proposed pumping quantity of water question removed reservoir river sand scheme Serpentine water sewage sewer shallow Simpson Sir John Shelley Sir Joseph Paxton Sir Matthew Ridley Sir Morton Peto smell springs sufficient summer supply of fresh supply of water supposing surface taken Thames water upper end vegetable matter Water Company Waterworks Westminster whole yards
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Page 307 - Duties, should be capitalised to pay for the greater part of the embankment scheme : the rest being supplied by a parliamentary vote. Without noticing the discussions which took place in Committee, we will at once state the decision ultimately arrived at, in the form of resolutions : — • "1. That the embankment of the north side of the Thames, from Westminster Bridge to or nearly to Southwark Bridge, would afford a desirable mode of improving the banks and bed of the river, and facilitate the...
Page 306 - Every select committee having power to send for persons, papers, and records, shall have leave to report their opinion and observations, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the house...
Page xv - Report, — put, and agreed to. Question, That this Report, as amended, be the Report of the Committee to the House, — put and agreed to.
Page iii - Orders of the House, examined the matters to them referred ; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page 176 - For widening and improving Cannon Street, and for making a new street from the west end of Cannon Street to Queen Street, and for widening and improving Queen Street, and for effecting other improvements in the city of London.
Page 176 - An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of Lands required for certain Branches of the North Staffordshire Railway to Newcastle-under-Lyme, Silverdale, and the Apedale Ironworks.
Page 307 - ... committees and commissioners already named. This subject we shall take up, after having noticed the recent proceedings concerning embankment schemes, and the connection of these schemes with the Great Drainage of the Metropolis. It was in May, I860, that a Committee was appointed by the House of Commons, ' To consider the best means of providing for the increasing traffic of the Metropolis, by the Embankment of the Thames.
Page 4 - The streets to be of three magnitudes ; the three principal leading straight through the city, and one or two cross streets to be at least...
Page xiv - That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the paragraph," put and negatived. Question proposed, " That the proposed words be there added.