Star.
London, England, 1824-09-04 00:00:00

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.c.sidering the general attention which the MCfro-
4politan Marine Bath Company appears to have justly
VI e think it cannot be uninteresting to our
attracted,
-Readers to learn by what means it is intended to bring
the needful supply of Sea Water to London.
The plan, we understand, is to commence operations
,t the nearest point of the coast between London and
the Sore, which may afford water of sufficient purity
and saltr.ess. This will probably be about thirty-eve
wiles from town. At this point it is proposed to form,l
otsseen high and low watermark, one or more cottsi-
derable.teservoirs, inclosed by flood-gates. At the rise
if the tide the water will be permitted to flow into the
ieservoirs, the gates of which will be closed at high
water.—Upon these reservoirs a steam-engine of from
80 to 100 bone power will be erected, and employed
to rai•e a continual supply of water from the reservoirs
to el smaller reservoir or cistern; placed at the height of
150 or 180 feet above the surface of the water in the
huge reservoirs. From this higher position a line of
pipes will commence, to lead through the country to
London, as the New River pipes pass from the reser-
voir of that establishment at.lslington, to supply fresh
waler to the houses in London. These pipes, it is in-
tended, should be about 24 to SO inches diameter.

The fall in the Thames does not exceed nine inches
in a mile ; thus the level of the Reservoir will not be
more than about 25 feet below that of London Bridge.
Of the height to which the water will be raised by the
engine, 25 feet must be set against the fall from Lon-
don; the surplus will remain' as a head to chive the
water along the pipes to. London, and will give a fall
therein, upon the whole, of more than six times that of
the Thames, and upwards of ten times that of the
New River.

The present price of iron pipes is about 91. per tort.
Pipes of the dimensions stated, weighfrom five to seven
cwt. per yard. The expense of putting down such pipes,
and fitting them with the needful joints, air cocks, &c.
&c. would be about one-third of the cost of the pipes,
or about 31. per ton.
Under this arrangement, the sea-water would flow
from the sea to London just as regularly and constantly
as the water flows through the pipes of any of the pre-
sent London Water Companies horn their Reservoirs to
the houses of their customers.
The sea-water, whenie has reached London, will be
received into another Reservoir,: and be afterwards dis-
tributed, as may be required, to the different Bathing
Ltablishments.

Upon the above data, persons disposed to take shares
in the undertaking may readily form a calculation for
themselves of the cost of bringing the water town. The
amount of such cost, including the putsch= of way-
leave, will probably be somewhere from six to 7,0001.
per mile, or from about 200 to 2.50,0001. in the whole,
leaving a similar sum for the construction of the in-
tended Baths.
When completed, the track of pipes of this concern
will be much the longest close aqueduct known ; but
that of the New Water Works at Edinburgh bears a
considerable approximation to it ; the line of pipet there
is about nine miles long, the bore of the pipes about 15
inches, and the difference of level between the source
whence the water comes at the commencement of the
nine miles, and the point of delivery in Edinburgh is
about 200 fed. In the line of track, several very con-
siderable hills are passed over. Along the Essex side
of tee Thames, scarcely a single elevation occurs in the
whole distance. The discharge from the pipe of the 14eivi
Works at Edinburgh is about 45,000 gallons per hOur. '