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Excerpt from A Treatise on Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towers: With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as Influencing Supplies of Waters
The inhabitants of this metropolis are not likely to forget that in 1860, upon the occasion of the passing of the Metropolis Gas Act, Mr. Hughes, associated with Mr. James Beal, a gentleman whose assiduous devotion to public inte rests is so well known and appreciated, were the pioneers of a movement which secured the subsequent development for the public benefit of all the late improvements introduced in the supply of gas.
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