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offensive or injurious smoke and smells, either to render 

 their effluvium harmless by means of gigantic chimneys, 

 or to consume it on the premises. Since gigantic manu- 

 factories are thus trammelled and burdened to prevent 

 their deteriorating the atmosphere in their immediate 

 neighbourhood, is it not equitable and reasonable that 

 similar restrictions should be laid upon those who not 

 only deteriorate but poison the waters of many neigh- 

 bourhoods besides their own? When the law puts re- 

 straint upon those whose operations could only injure 

 the hedges and herbage of three or four fields, why 

 should it give license to those who inflict loss, ugliness, 

 and disease on as many counties ? 



