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Excerpt from A Description of a Sub-Marine Aqueduct, to Supply New-York With Water From New-Jersey: Connected With a Commercial Canal, and Rail-Way, for the Direct Western Trade of This City
But that circumstance has not been owing to any doubt or disunion: On the contrary, an uncommon degree of solicitude has been manifested and expressed on proper occasions, when there was a prospect of success: even from an early period after public affairs became settled, when the Manhattan Company was incorporated for this purpose, up to the recent occasion, when millions were promptly embodied, and surveys were made to the Rye Pond and the Croton, and would have been applied had these resulted in an estimate of the quantity and expense commensurate to the object.
Still, however general the impression of the value of such a work to this city, the great expense attending it, seems to have been, and still to be an obstacle. And no doubt it will require every rational motive to union of pur pose, and a clear perception of every advantage, to induce its being undertaken.
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