PREFACE 



IN the following treatise the subject of water sup- 

 plies to country houses and estates is discussed. 

 Although there are at the present time numerous 

 excellent treatises on the subject of " waterworks," 

 yet these books almost without exception aim at 

 discussing works of large magnitude such as are 

 carried out every year at home and abroad for sup- 

 plying large towns with water for domestic purposes, 

 and to a lesser extent, water for power purposes. 

 This class of work demands high engineering skill 

 for its proper carrying out, and this skill is only ob- 

 tained after years of devotion to and experience on 

 similar works. Moreover, the subject of quite small 

 supplies, which are essentially different than the 

 larger ones, receive little or no consideration. It 

 was this reason, together with the fact that the 

 writer in his younger days felt the want of some sort 

 of a guide to assist him in carrying out successfully 

 several of the small water supply schemes on which 

 he has been engaged from time to time, that induced 

 him to put together in concise form a few of the 

 most important details of this work. It is quite 

 impossible to point out every conceivable form of 

 difficulty which besets the engineer in work of this 

 kind, or in fact any kind, and there are so many sub- 

 jects which bear directly on that upon which this 



