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to many imposing works of art of which New-Yorkers may justly be proud.

Beginning at the "Dam," the waters of the Croton flow to the Distributing Reservoir in Central Park, forty

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miles and a half, through a covered viaduct made of stone and brick. In its course, it flows through sixteen tunnels in rock, varying in length from one hundred and sixty to one thousand two hundred and sixty-three feet. As it passes through Sing Sing and over the Kill, it becomes an

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elliptical arch of hewn granite, of eighty-eight feet span, with its key-stone more than seventy feet from the waters of the brook beneath it. In Westchester County it crosses twenty-five streams, from twelve to seventy feet below the line of grade, besides numerous small brooks furnished with culverts. Upon its reaching Harlem River, it passes

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MANHATTANVILLE FROM CLAREMONT.

over from the main-land to Manhattan Island by the "High Bridge," justly considered one of the most magnificent structures on the continent. Built of granite, the "High Bridge," or aqueduct, is one thousand four hundred and fifty feet in length, and rests upon arches sup

ported by fourteen pieces of heavy and elaborate masonry. Eight of these arches are eighty feet span, and six of them fifty feet high. The height of the bridge above the water is one hundred and fourteen feet. The original cost of this structure was nearly a million of dollars. This point forms one of the "lions" of the city-to which any

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"cousin" or "friend" who visits New York must certainly be taken during his or her stay. Nor, indeed, could a more charming drive be taken in the suburbs of the city than this. The Bloomingdale Road, which, leading through Manhattanville, conducts the visitor from the city to the "High Bridge," and, passing between hills covered with wood, affords, in the heats of summer, a delightful change from the dust and scorching stone sidewalks and brick walls of the town.

From the "High Bridge" (which, by the way, is at the foot of One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Street), the waters pass the Clendening Valley in an aqueduct one thousand nine hundred feet in length, and enter the Receiv

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