The views which I have given of the important points on the line of the Croton Aqueduct, are from sketches taken for my own satisfaction. A description from such source, accompanied with detailed plans of all the appurtenances of the Aqueduct, with the results of experiments on the flow of water in the Aqueduct, would be a useful contribution to the cause of science, a valuable work to Engineers generally, and particularly so to younger members of the profession.

The accounts of the Aqueducts of ancient Rome, and those built by the ancient Romans in other parts of Europe, also that of the Aqueducts of modern Rome, of Italy, France, &c., have been mostly obtained from the French work of J. Rondolet, in which the account of the Aqueducts of ancient Rome is translated from the Latin of Frontinus. For the account of the Aqueducts of Mexico and South America, I am indebted, in a great degree, to “Bradford’s Antiquities of America,” and “Ewbank’s Hydraulics.”

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