Excerpt from Report on the Waters of the Hudson River: Together With an Analysis of the Same, Made to the Water Commissioners of the City of Albany For drinking purposes it was formerly supposed that while the lime and magnesia compounds enumerated as occurring in the Hudson river water, and which are found in almost all river, pond and well waters, are not absolutely injurious in moderate quantities, it was nevertheless desirable that water for domestic use should be as free from them as possible; and the choice between two or more sources of water was decided by the relative am punts Of these substances present. 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.