Identifier: treatsillustrate00trea (find matches)
Title: Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Treat, E. B. (Erastus Buck), 1838-1928 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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THE TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT, a new Bible History pastime for the home circle.Four games on 40 illustrated cards. Bv Bev. J. 8.Ostrander. Mailed for 50 cents. Also CENTEN-NIAL GAMES. American History for 100years. 50 new Games on GO cards; 24.000 sold; price75 cents. Agent* wanted. E. B. TREAT, Publisher, 805 Broadway, New York. TREATS ILLUSTRATEDNEW YORK BROOKLYN, and SURROUNDINGS. A New Pictorial Sketch Bookand Strangers Guide to the grand and beauti-ful of the Great Metropolis and its suburbs. lOOfirst-class engravings and an Outline Map of 20 milesaround New York ; a Street Map. and Map of CentralPark. On tinted paper, handsomely bound. Price50 cents. It is a treat to look through it.—If. Y. Weekly Witness.The most complete work of its kind.—Christian Adv.The very best guide we have seen.—Christian at Work. Book Canvassers and News Agents are selling thisbook by thousands. 1,000 more active men andwomen wanted. For particulars address E. B. TREAT, Publisher, 805 Broadway, ». 7.
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AND PH) Croton Aqueduct and High Bridge. The completion of the Croton Aque-duct in 1842 was one of the most mag-nificent enterprises of modern times. Adam thrown across Croton River (whichempties into the Hudson above Sing Sing)raised the water 40 feet, forming CrotonLake. The distance from CrotonLake tothe distributing reservoir, on Murray Hill,(Forty-second-street,) is forty-one and ahalf miles. The Aqueduct is constructedof stone, brick, and cement, arched aboveand below, is seven and a half feet wideand eight and a half high, with an inclina-tion of thirteen inches to the mile, and hascapacity for a flow of 60,000,000 gallonsof water per diem. In Westchester Countyit crosses 25 streams, some of them 70feet below the line of grade, besidesmany brooks furnished with culverts.Opposite Eighty-sixth-street is a receiv-ing reservoir covering 35 acres, containing150,000,000 gallons. Another was addedseveral years since, covering over 100 acresand 38 feet deep, with a capacity of 1,030,-0

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