Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners Appointed Under the Order of the City Council, August 26, 1844, to Report the Best Mode and Expense of Bringing the Water of Long Pond Into the City of Boston This involves an inquiry of great difficulty, arising from the embarrassments to the exact measurement of the flow of the water, While it is subject to theuses of the proprietors of the mills at the outlet, and more especially from the great variableness of the flow, in different parts of every season, and also the great inequality between one season and another. The Commissioners have given as much attention to this inquiry, With the aid of a careful engineer, as the period Which has elapsed since their appoint ment would allow, and they have also availed them selves of the observations and calculations, Which were made by the Commissioners Whose report is above referred to. The unusual drought of the past season, arising from the small quantity of rain which fell during a period of two or three months, was fa votable for determining what may be regarded as the minimum flow of water in any ordinary season. It may perhaps be proper to regard it as a season of extraordinary drought, not likely to be often sur passed, though it Would be unsafe to assume that even severer droughts may not occur hereafter. 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.