Star.
London, England, 1824-08-28 00:00:00

AEIV BATHS.

Considering the general attention which the Proposals
of the Metropolitan Marine Bath Company appear to
have justly attracted, we think it cannot be uninteresting
to out Readers to learn by what means it is intended to
bring the needful quantity of sea water to London.
The plan, ae understand, is to commence operations
at the nearest point of the coast between London and
the Note, which may afford water of sufficient purity
and saltness. This will probably be about thirty-five
miles from town. At this point it is proposed to form,
between high and low watermark, one or more ccn,i-
derable reservoirs, inclosed by flood-gates. At the rise
of the tide the waters will be permitted to flow into the
reservoir, the gates of a hich will be shut at high waver.
Upon these reservoirs a steam-engine of from SO to
100 horse power will be erected, and employed to raise
a continual supply of water from the reservoirs to a
smaller reservoir or cistern placed at the height of 150
or 180 feet above the surface of the water in the large
reservoir. 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 reservoir of that
Establishment at Islington, to supply fresh water to the
lhouses in London. These pipes it is intended should be
from 24 to 30 inches diameter.
The fall in the Thames does not exceed nine inches
in a mile; thus the level of the reservoir will be not
more than about twenty-five feet below that of London-
bridge.. Of the height to which the water will be raised
by the engine, twenty-five must be set against the fall
from London ; the surplus will remain as a head to
drive 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 the fall in the
New River.

The present price of iron pipes is about 9/. per ton.
Pipes of the dimensions above stated weigh from five to
seven cwt. per yard. The expense of putting down such
pipes, and fitting them with the needful joints, air-corks,
&c. &c. would be about one-third of the cost of the
pipes, or about SI. 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 present
London Water Companies, from their reservoirs to the
houses of their customers.

The sea water, when it has reached London, will be
received into another reservoir, and be afterwards dis-
tributed as may be required to the different Bathing
Establishments.

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 to town.
The amount of such cost, including the purchase of
way leave, will probably be somewhere from six to
7,0001. per mile, or from about 200 to 250,0001. in the
whole, leaving a similar sum for the construction of the
several intended Baths.

When completed, the track of pipes of this concern
will probably 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
pipes there is about nine miles long; the bow of the
pipes about fifteen inches, and the difference of level
between the source whence the water comes at the com-

mencement of the nine miles, and the point of delivery
in Edinburgh, is about 200 feet. In the line of track,
several very considerable hills are passed over. Along
the Essex side of the Thames :cartel x a single elevation
occurs in the whole distance. The Ilischarge from Elle
pipe of the new works in Edinburgh is about 45,0i0
gallons per hour.

Last Wednesday, a party of seven juveniles, belonging
to an Inst ,ution whose annual treat to the Public is of the meg
splendid a id sounding description, met at a house not a hundred
miles from Kew Greer, to enjoy
•• feast of reason, and flow of soul,
With catch aid site, and sparkling bowl'•'
Four hund ed and al rti-si: year:, were the wilted ages of ",cs=
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