Excerpt from Papers on Water Supply The amount of water at the various points 1 was measured and calculated approximately by Mr. Hamilton, as shown in the following table, after a heavy rain. If only one-fourth of these quantities represents the dry-weather flow, there will still be much more than enough in the river-bed at all times to dispose of all the sewage that is likely to be discharged into it for at least very many years, if not for all time. 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.