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Excerpt from A Treatise on Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towns: With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as Influencing Supplies of Water, Details of Engines and Pumping Machinery for Raising Water
In claiming for this little volume a modest place in Mr. Weale's now celebrated Rudimentary Series, I venture to offer a few words of explanation as to the mode in which I have been led to treat the subject.
After a brief allusion in the earlier pages to some celebrated works of antiquity and to the ancient modes of procuring water which were practised in the East, the second part of the book is devoted to a mixed geological and hydrographical examination of the surface of England.
This has been thought necessary in consequence of the extreme importance which physical structure exercises in every question of Water-supply - an importance which attaches alike to every source of supply, whether from springs, rivers, wells, lakes, or drainage areas. This branch of the subject is in itself so extensive that I can only pretend to have given a very meagre and imperfect sketch of those geological and other physical conditions which affect the water-yielding capacity of various districts.
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