Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-12-25
NOTABLE AoUEDucrs.
The Most Remarkablework Of An
cient and Modern Times.

1t is an interesting fact that, to this
day, Athens is partly supplied with wa.
ter by conduits planned under the rule Of
Pisistratus in the sixth century B. C.
The system of tunnels and underground
pipes, which conveyed water to Syracuse
in the fifth century B. c., and which, ac-
cording to Thucydides was partly de-
stroyed by the Athenians, still supplies
the wants of the modern town, and the
tunnel passing under the sea to the
island of Ortygia bears witness to the
engineering capabilities of the country
men Of Archimedes
The great masters, however, of aque-
duct construction were the Romans. In
the time of Marcus Auielius, Rome was
supplied with water by no less than
fourteen aqueducts. The chief of these
were the Aqua Claudia and the Anio No
vus aqueducts, respectively forty-fve
and sixty-two miles long, which, after
reaching point SIX miles distant from
the city, thenceforth travelled together
In two distinct channels, one above the
other, supported by a chain of arches
attaining at one place the height of 100
feet. OF the fourteen aqueducts required
by ancient Rome, three, including the
Aqua Claudia, suffice for the needs of
the modern city. The aqueduct bridges,
or arched walls which traverse the Cam
pagna, are not the tallest structures of
the kind reared by the Romans. The
Pont du Gard near Nismes, consists of
three rows of arches, and the vaulted
water-course, which surmounts the top
mn Al
We may here remind the reader that
the High Bridge over the Harlem River
is ia feet above high water mark, and
|, AGO feet long. The principal bridge of
the aqueduct of Antioch was only 700
feet long, but it was 200 feet high. The
aqueduct bridge of Segoyia in Spain also
built by the Romans, is 2, 400 feet long
and 102 feet high. The aqueduct near
Spoleto, built by the Byzantines in the
seventh or eighth century, is 800 feet in
height. At Mayence are the ruins of
Roman aqueduct. 16, 900 feet long, and
carried on from 400 to 600 pillars. The
Pyrgos, or Crooked Aqueduct, still serves
to convey to Constantinople the waters
of valley situated on the heights Ok
Mount Haemus, fifteen miles from the
city. One section of this aqueduct il
composed of three rows of arches, one
row above another, which are collective.
ly 100 feet in height.
One of the most remarkable works OF
the kind constructed in modern times is
the aqueduct bridge of Maintenon, erected
for the purpose of conveying water from
the river Eura to Versailles. 1t consists
OF three rows OF arches, one above an
other, and is 200 feet high by fve-sixths
OF a mile in length. The conduit that
supplies Marseilles with the water of the
Durance is about sixty miles in length,
and one of its aqueduct bridges is 262 feet
high. The length of the conduit which
brings water from Kaiserbrunn to Wen
ma is fifty six and half miles, but the
tallest of its aqueduct bridges is only
about ninety-six feet. The main Paris
aqueduet as little over 10 miles long,
and, with its subsidiary conduits, COM
PEELED the construction of seventeen
bridges
Whether we look at the cost of con-
struction or at the amount of water de-
liverable, the new Croton Aqueduct sur
passes every other structure of the kind.
1t is estimated that the new Croton Aque-
duct alone will be able to supply popu-
lation of 2, 1870, 600 with an allowance of
$50 gallons a day per head. With the
addition of the old aqueduct and the
Bronx river pipeline, the total capacity
of the city's water works will be $50 gal
Ions day per head for population of
1878, 0o0.-tNew York Ledger.