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Gentlemen,—The insufficiency and badness of the pre-
sent supply of water to the metropolis have long engaged
the public attention ; but although many endeavours have
been made to establish it on a better basis, owing to causes
which we must seek in the elements of the projects them-
selves, they have invariably failed.
As it appears, however, generally admitted that some-
thing should be done, we arc naturally led to inquire into
the reasons of the want of success of former attempts, and
by carefully avoiding these, and at the same time cndca-
to present an effective and practical remedy, we
hope to deserve the public confidence. h w ill
be my endeavour to show, in the following re-
nature has supplied us with the means of sub-
s pure anti unceasing flow of spring water for the
Igs of filthy drains, and that this can be done
encountering difficulties of any but an ordinary

theless, before I proceed to do this, it may not be
that I should briefly enumerate the various plans
we hitherto been suggested to attain this object ;
rill at once prove how much time and attention,

ave bcetowod on tae subject; and will aiso enable
.tint out to you what appears to sue to-have been
ises of their rejection.
back as the year 1821, a Committee of the House
,ons made a long Report, in which they recoils-
that a Bill should be passed to regulate the water
!s, which had at that time caused much dissatis-
in account of the great increase, which sitrialition
them to make on their former rates. The inquiry.
it does not appear to have led to any positive
!vertheless called the attention of the public to
facts which were not previously generally known,
long others, to the very inferior quality of the water
-,any of the Companies supplied. We accord-
.al that, in 1824, a highly respectable body of gen-
held a meeting, to take into consideration a pro-
of Mr. Philip Taylor's, to conduct the water of
Imes, by means of a subterraneoui aqueduct, from
ear Richmond,-to reservoirs at Kensall-green and
Hampstead-heath.
In 1825 a company was rormed to supply the metropo-
lis with spring water from beneath the London clay, a pro-
ject which was again brought forward in IS3b, and to
which I shall have occasion, in a later period of this re-
port, to allude at some length.
But it was not until the spring of 1827 that, in conse-
quence cf the publication of a pamphlet, entitled " The
Dolphin," by Mr. Wright, the general mass of the inha-
bitants of London could be said to have been aroused to a
sense of the paramount importance of a better supply of
water to their houses, than that derived from some of the
most foul portions of the river Thames. Although de-
ferred for such a length of time, the public indignation now
became unanimous; and at a meeting held in April, 1827,
which was attended by a most influential body of the nobi-
lity and residents of the west of London, resolutions of a
very strong nature were passed, and a petition agreed to,
playing for the appointment, by the Crown, of a Commis-
sion to inquire into the present modes of supply; and their
effect on the health of the population.
In compliance with this urgent demand, Dr. Roget,
Mr. Brand, and Mr. Telford, were named on tin 12th
July, 1827, to examine the allegations brought forward,
which at once led to the suggestion of numerous remedies
for an evil which no one appeared ready to controvert.
Among these we find a Mr. Hipkins proposing to con-
vey in an open conduit the water of the Thames from
above Old Brentford ; Dr. Kerrison, from Isleworth ;
and Mr. James Mills, from Teddington ; Mr. Martin, the
artist, also sought to show that the water of th,s river Colne
might be brooght in a canal from Denham, iii the neigh-
bourhood of Uxbridge, to London ; and, in addition to
these, various other proposals emanated from Messrs.
Smart, Brown of Wakefield, Chambers, Jones, William
Anderion, &c.

e fully discussed by the
their report rendered it
even in, long before they
sated their labours.
enabled them, however, to
if the supply of water re-
complaints respecting the
that the water ough: to be
--
.:port was ce e ne- ereary
that a Select Committee of the House of Commons should
be appointed to make further inquiries, and at the end of
the Session it appears to have fully agreed that the supply
should be derived from a purer source than the present ;
in furtherance of which object it was recommended that
Mr. Telford should be employed to make such surveys as
would enable him to suggest a practicable plan of supply-
ing every part of London with wholesome and pure water.
After several years of protracted inquiry, Mr. Telford
came to the conclusion that it would be desirable to bring
tae water from the river Verulam, on the north side of
the Thames, and one of the branches of the Wandle, on
the south, to London, to effect which so large an outlay
was necessary, that he proposed that it should be met by a
Parliamentary grant.
Another and numerous Committee of the Ilouse of
Commons again met to consider these plans, but its la-
bours were unfortunately not terminated at the end of the
Session ; the inquiry may therefore still be considered as
remaining nearly in the same state in which it was left in
the year 1834.
The plan of sinking Artesian wells to the sands of the
plastic clay or chalk has, indeed, as I have already men-
tioned, been again mooted, but abandoned for causes to bo
hereafter detailed ; and Mr. Telford's proposal of bringing
the water of the Verulam to London has also been taken
up, with various modifications, by Mr. Giles, who, how-
ever, did not succeed, I believe, in the preliminary step of
finding capitalists willing to embark in the undertaking.
It will now, I think, be sufficiently established that the
present mode of supplying London with water has, for a
length of time, been any thing but satisfactory to the
public ; and if for some years past the subject has been
allowed to rest, it has probably arisen more from a preva-
lent idea that the inquiry was in the hands of the Legis-
lature, than from any real statement of the grounds of
eompleint.
Front various causes it would seem, however, that there
is no intention on the part of the Government to prose-
cute the inquiry ; and, indeed this may, in some degree,
be accounted for from the country being called upon, ac-
cording to Mr. Telford's plan, to expend nearly 1,200,0001.
to carry that into effect which may have been already
doubtless perceived to be but a partial remedy for the evil.
It is indeed surprising that, with the exception of the
proposal to obtain the water by perforating the London
clay, every project, including Mr. Telford's, should have
contemplated using the water of streams which are all
subject to be affected by the surface drainage of a more or
less extensive tract of country, and consequently, only a
very few degrees better than that already in use, whilst,
at the same time, all the difficulties consequent on the
injury to existing interests, as navigations, mills, &c.,
have to be encountered. Many, although they sought to
remove the objection to using the water of the Thames in
the immediate vicinity of London, continued to endeavour
to derive their supply from a greater distance, where al-
though certainly less liable to contamination, it might still
be considered as the common sewer of many important
towns on its banks and the general drain into which much
animal and vegetable matter must find its way, particularly
after the scouring of the neighbouring country by every
heavy fall of rain.
I do not, indeed, at all contest that the extraneous bodies
which pollute the water of rivers, are merely held in mecha-
nical suspension, and that provided we get rid of these by
allowing them to fall to the bottom, the Thames water may
be looked upon as quite as pure as any other. But there
appears to me one material objection to the method of re-
moving the impurities by rest which applies to all surface
water—namely, that a considerable space of time is neces-
sary to admit of their complete separation, and as this is
also increased by the slightest agitation again diffusing the
particles of the deposits through the water, the gradual ac-
cumulation of filth in the reservoirs, and the lapse of time
requisite to render the water clear, must undoubtedly add
to unpleasant odour and flavour, or in other words, to
a tendency to become putrid. 1 therefore repeat that it is
scarcely to be wondered at that the Legislature should
have delayed acting on Mr. Telford's plan, which combined
these objections with a very large outlay, nor that a Com-
pany should still have found grounds fur proposing Arte-
sian wells in preference to his suggestions.
That this, however, was not to have been easily attained,
appears partly proved by the fact, that this project was
never brought to maturity, and the remarks I am now
about to lay before you will also, I trust, confirm this view.
The group of strata, designated as the lower tertiary, or
socene, and consisting of two divisions, the upper called
the London clay, and the lower composed of various
coloured sands and argillaceous deposits, distinguished as
the plastic clay, lying immediately upon the chalk forma.
tion, may, in general terms, be described as a huge mass
of clay resting upon a still more extensive bed of chalk.
The section which accompanies this report, and which, vi ith
slight modifications, is taken from Dr. Buckland's Bridge-
water Treatise, will show this clearly, and by inspecting it
you will at once understand that the surface of country oe•
copied by the clay, is surrounded on all sides by a belt of
chalk, excepting to the cast, where the German Ocean for
some distance interrupts the continuity, and you will al .o
perceive that this cretaceous circle is, generally speaking,
higher in level than the deposit of clay which fills the center
of the basin.
It is almost needless that I should inform you, that of
the water which descends as dew or rain upon the sur-
face of the London clay, little, if any, can be considered
asabsorbed into the earth, and that whilst a part either
again re-ascends into the atmosphere as vapour or enters
into the composition of animal and vegetable bodies, by
far the greater portion flows off into the main drain of the
district, the river Thames.
In this respect there is a most material difference from
that Portion of the surface vihsre the chalk comes to light,

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