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... Basin , " as it was called , in which the water varied from one to three feet above low water mark . In that year , a negotiation , which had been going on between the city and the Worcester Railroad Corporation for more than a year ...
... Basin , " as it was called , in which the water varied from one to three feet above low water mark . In that year , a negotiation , which had been going on between the city and the Worcester Railroad Corporation for more than a year ...
Page v
... basin , and was intended to discharge the dry weather or house drainage into the South Bay , and by weirs or overflows allow the storm water to discharge by the old outlets into the Back Bay . This scheme was hardly in operation when it ...
... basin , and was intended to discharge the dry weather or house drainage into the South Bay , and by weirs or overflows allow the storm water to discharge by the old outlets into the Back Bay . This scheme was hardly in operation when it ...
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... basin they are now at work upon ; and probably the marshy ground in front of Brookline , which ought to be filled up , and which is of no use to the harbor , will be filled with gravel . If we could do that , if we could excavate ...
... basin they are now at work upon ; and probably the marshy ground in front of Brookline , which ought to be filled up , and which is of no use to the harbor , will be filled with gravel . If we could do that , if we could excavate ...
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... basin , which I understand is contemplated , is to be made solely for the benefit of the harbor . I take it if that were the sole purpose , to benefit navigation , - the committee would leave the question to the United States , to whom ...
... basin , which I understand is contemplated , is to be made solely for the benefit of the harbor . I take it if that were the sole purpose , to benefit navigation , - the committee would leave the question to the United States , to whom ...
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... basins , without a diminution of the width of the harbor , would reduce the depth of the harbor . When , in 1820 , the tidal basin of the Charles River was reduced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would undoubtedly ...
... basins , without a diminution of the width of the harbor , would reduce the depth of the harbor . When , in 1820 , the tidal basin of the Charles River was reduced materially by the construction of the mill - dam , it would undoubtedly ...
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