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oankment being 52S yards long and GO feet high. To these was added the Yarrow reser- voir of 73 acres, formed by two embank- ments. one 737 yards long and 100 feet high. the other 1S1 yards long and 90 feet high The total area of water in all these reservoirs is about 630 acres. It is filtered by being passed through several beds specially con structed for the purpose. The cost of filter ing is estimated at $500 per annum per mil lion gallons In the city itself are several service reservoirs, one of which is six acres in extent, and contains 1000, O0O gallons It is arched over with brick work which is covered with turf, and Is dedicated as play ground for the public.
 In 1865 the supply to the town from all sources was on an average 100 GOO, GOO gal Ions a week, while 50, OOO coo was given away as compensation. The demand how ever, began to gain on the supply Various projects were put forward to bring water from the English or Welsh lakes Liverpool was anxious not to be outdone by her Scotch rival, Glasgow, which in 1859 had boldly tapped Loch Katrine, at an expense of $7. 300, 00O to obtain daily supply of 2l,0OO,- GOO gallons. After years of discussion it was resolved to construct a new aqueduct The total length of this aqueduct, from its con- mencement six miles south of Bala Lake to Prescott near Liverpool, will be 6F miles, The valley is about 7S0 feet above the sea level. At its narrowest part where it is about three hundred yards across, an em- bankment S4 feet high above the pround lev ell will be erected, This work, by damminp back the river, without any further artificial enclosure, will, with the natural sides of the valley, form lake nearly five miles long, with water area of 1,115 acres; that is, there will be created an artificial lake as larpe as Bala. The embankment will be of solid masonry, the excavations will be carried down to the solid rock at depth of forty-one feet, the length of the tunnel from the river Marchnant will be mile and half, and that from the river Cowny mile and quarter in length. These tunnels are constructed with view to the future rather than the present It is intended primarily to collect the water from the 17, 5S3 acres which naturally drain into the Vyrnwy, but as the town increases in population the two streams will be divert ed into the lake, giving an additional drain age area of 4, 417 acres.
 The Rivington water is somewhat dis colored, especially after rain. This color arises from the moorland whence it is de- rived. The Vyrnwy water comes from dis trict of silurian soil, and is very pure There is district in Great Britain so thinly populated as this part of Wales. There are no mines manufac- lures.
 The aqueduct will commence by tunnel seven feet in diameter and two and half miles long, which will terminate in a cast iron pipe of forty-two inches internal diam eter. Tunnels where the ground permits, alternate with pipes, which are necessary where valleys have to be crossed There will be only one raised aqueduct. Relieving tanks will be erected at intervals, and filter ing beds constructed.
 The estimated expenditure on the works in their complete form is $15, 1000, 900, and it is anticipated that the first section of the works will be so far completed in 1885 as to allow the water to be delivered into Liver pool.
 When the whole scheme is finished Liver pool will have an available supply of 52, ,OOO,- 900 gallons per day. The present consump- tlon is 120, GOO, GOO per week. so that there is a wide margin for future requirements. The present population of the town is 80O,- 900. The resources of the Vyrnwy are am pie for population of 2, 1900, ,OOO. The total storage capacity of the lake is II, 900, OOO,- GOO gallons
 The Liverpool corporation has agreed to supply water to the towns of St. Helens, Widnes Warrington and Oswestry as soon as the Vyrnwy water reaches Liverpool.
 From the time when the Rivington scheme was planned to the commencement of the Vyrnwy works, Liverpool has doubled in population. Since the Croton works were determined on, in 1885, New York has in- creased from 27O, OCO to ,206, GOO inhabitants or nearly fivefold, and the Commissioner of Public Works assures us that before any ad- ditional supply can possibly be furnished the city will have outgrown the capacities of its present supply.
 Some Egyptian Discoveries.
 Such discoveries have been made in Egypt, says the St. James Gazette as must thrill with rapture every historical every archao- logical mind in the civilized world. The more we hear of them the more delightful they appear. Thirty royal mummies, with what we find described as 'all the mortuary allpeDdaOas and inScriDtiOncp of many royal personages. Among them the bodies of Thutmes III. and Ramses 1.-the same Thutmes who set up the obelisk that now stands on the Thames embankment-the same Ramses whose titles and honors are also inscribed on that monument, and now that their mummies are found, ''even the flowers and garlands which were placed in their coffins may be seen encir- cling the masks which cover the faces of the deceased just as they were left by the mourners over three thousand years ago." Think of the gallery two hundred feet long filled with relics of the Theban dynasties' '-sacred relics removed from their appropriate places in tombs and temples, and concealed in this secret subterranean gallery by the priests to save them from destruction by some foreign invader. Among these treasures 3, TOO mortuary statues bearing royal cartouches and inscriptions, fifteen enormous wigs, and above all a vast leathern
  tion." It is covered with hieroglyphs most carefully embroidered in red, green and vel low leather; the colors quite fresh and bright, and the whole workmanship is described beautiful. But neither the mummies nor the wigs nor the tent, nor any of these things can be compared with the find" of papyri, or so we may anticipate, though they have not yet been unrolled. Four were found in the secret gallery, which was hewn in the solid rock of the cliffs of the Lybian mountains. All the papyri are in a perfect state of preservation largest (which is about sixteen inches wide, and when unrolled will probably measure from 100 to 40 feet in length) being beautifully adorned with il- luminations in color. What these ancient screeds may reveal the world will now be i'm patient to learn; and since the savants are naturally more impatient than anybody else, the world will not have to wait long prob ably.