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Water Works, ancient but not public.
IN the April issue of the Register allusion was made to the water from a spring on Pasture Hill being brought underground to the distillery on old Ship street. A few days since, in digging for the laying of gas pipes, several sections of that ancient aqueduct were removed.
Though long disused they are in an excellent state of preservation.
They are of spruce wood, ten inches in diameter, a dozen feet long, the two and one-half inch hole in the center through which the water flowed having been bored by hand labor with the old-time pump auger.
This last would seem a strange tool to present day mechanics and was one requiring skill as well as strength to operate.
The method of joining was simple.
One end of the pump log (so called) was smoothly tapered, much as a pencil is sharpened, and the bore in the end of the next slightly enlarged, while to prevent cleavage when driven together, a stout iron band was first driven on the outer surface.