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THE

LONDON JOURNAL

OF

Arts and Sciences:

CONTAINING

FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES AND DETAILS OF

EVERY NEW PATENT,

ALSO

Original Communications

ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY,

PARTICULARLY SUCH AS EMBRACE THE MOST RECENT

INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

IN

Practical Mechanics.

BY W. NEWTON,

CIVIL ENGINEER AND MECHANICAL DRAFTSMAN,

Assisted by several Scientific Gentlemen.

VOL. VII.

[SECOND SERIES.]

London:

PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER ROW;

SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS' COURT; AND W. Newton,
OFFICE FOR PATENTS, 66, CHANCERY LANE.

1831.

LONDON:

GUTHRIE, PRINTER, 15, SHOE LANE.

THE

London

JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

No. XXXVII.

[SECOND SERIES.]

Original Communications.

ART. I.-PROPOSED PLAN FOR SUPPLYING THE CITY OF LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS WITH PURE WATER FROM THE RIVER THAMES.

THIS subject having lately excited considerable interest both in Parliament and among the inhabitants of the Metropolis, we feel great pleasure in laying before our readers a very simple plan for supplying London from the Thames with filtered water in a pure state, and which appears to be perfectly practicable, and capable of being carried into effect by any of the existing Water Companies, at a small expense compared to the execution of any of the projects which have been recently laid before the public, for bringing water to London from a distance.

VOL. VII. SECOND SERIES.

B

The present is the suggestion of Mr. Lemuel Wellman Wright, whose highly ingenious mechanical inventions have so often enriched the pages of our Journal. This plan was brought before the Royal Society a few evenings ago, at the express desire of his Royal Highness the President. The following is the substance of Mr. Wright's paper read upon that occasion:

Having perused with great attention the several Reports of the Commissioners appointed by his late Majesty, and the Committee appointed by the honourable the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the water supplied to the metropolis and its suburbs, it does not appear by such reports that there are any modes pointed out by the various parties who suggested plans for the supply of pure water, which met the views or wishes of either the commissioners or the committee; but the committee state, that after examining the numerous plans and suggestions, they are convinced, that it is practicable to supply water by filtration from the Thames, which would be the most efficacious mode of securing the public from the effects of the nauseous and deleterious ingredients, with which the supply of that useful and necessary commodity is impregnated.

Much talent has been exerted, and much expense incurred by individuals, to shew that new establishments are requisite at great expense, to bring water to London from a distance; but even allowing the water were brought from such distance, it would become foul, and but little better than the Thames; and the difficulties which occur in any attempt of the kind, are, to prevent the outlay of more capital than it would be competent to any parties to spend, whether in existence as companies, or to companies hereafter to be formed; to invade as little as possible the tenure of private property to the injury of its possessors;

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