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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., chapter 15 (search)
ed in iron pipes to a reservoir upon Mt. Benedict in Charlestown, a hill eighty feet above the sea level. The good quality of the Concord-river water was vouched for by the analysis of four able and practical chemists, Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of Boston; Prof. John W. Webster, of Cambridge University; S. L. Dana, of Lowell, and A. A. Hayes, Esq., of the chemical works at Roxbury. The various legal questions involved were submitted to the Hon. Jeremiah Mason, who gave an opinion, dated Dec. 21, 1842, favorable to the project. The form for an act of incorporation was drawn up, and a pamphlet was published in 1843 by Caleb Eddy, entitled an Historical Sketch of the Middlesex Canal, with Remarks for the Consideration of the Proprietors, setting forth the new scheme in glowing colors. But despite the feasibility of the plan proposed, and the energy with which it was pushed, the agitation came to naught; and Eddy, despairing of the future, resigned his position as agent in 1845. Amo