S22: / WATER STORAGE AND CANALIZATION. 
great nations of ancient and modern history, and before proceeding 
let me ask you to take aswift glance behind. The vista presented 
_ to your gaze is indeed pregnant with reflections sad and melancholy, 
as you look on the distant scene of departed grandeur, but gratifying 
enough as you look nearer the halting ground—as you see how 
gure 
the thin stream of the English army headed by its noble chiefs, 
the talented and kingly Canning, and the fiery gallant Clyde, 
threading its way through the battleriven town of Li i 
through an avenue of princes, kings, and emperors, blazing = 
jewelry and all the splendour of Eastern dress, whilst far as the 
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of their new subjects. How nobly they have performed their 
the accompanying abstract of statistics of some of the prine 
canals may in some measure serve to realize to you. ee tion ei 
