Excerpt from The Philadelphia Water Supply: Report of the Commission of 1878, Showing That the Fairmount Works Realize Less Than Thirty Per Cent. Of Their Proper Effect, and Even This After the Machinery Had Been Put in Repair for the Experiments of the Commission Oppressed with age and infirmity, the undersigned (through the aecom panying Report) takes final leave of a sub) ect which has engaged his attention for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.