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Excerpt from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. 13: January to June, 1882 But at an early day the people showed great public spirit in the attempt to utilize these wells on a large scale. In 1774, wh an the population of the city was only the Corporation began the construction of a reser voir on the east side of Broadway, between what are now known as Pearl and White Streets, and for its supply a well of large dimensions was sunk in the vicinity of the Collect. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of this work the city issued paper money to the amount of and bonds for nearly more. Then the Revolution came, and caused the abandonment of this undertaking. 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.