Front matter
Reading edition
New-York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by F. B. Tower, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, WHOSE ENTERPRISE IS STRIKINGLY EXEMPLIFIED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT, THIS BOOK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR.