XXIV. T. W. KEELE. 
regard to the water supply, and the newspapers were 
flooded daily with schemes for augmenting the water at 
Botany. The City Council carried a resolution that appli- 
cation be made to the Government for the necessary power 
to bring in water from the Nepean at Penrith, to the. 
engine pond at Botany, tenders to be invited by cable to 
England for 20 miles of 18 inch cast iron pipes, and local 
tenders to be invited for the requisite wooden flumes and 
cast iron pipes required at the creek crossings, and for 
pumping machinery required at Penrith, the whole to cos 
£100,000. . | 
Hudson Brothers’ Temporary Works:—The Government, 
however, had been considering a proposal from Messrs. 
Hudson Brothers, to bring in 3 million gallons per day 
from the Pheasant’s Nest, by utilizing the existing works, 
connecting up the gaps, nine in number, across the various 
creeks, and the railway above Prospect, by timber trestles 
supporting 36 inch cast iron pipes to be provided by the 
Government ; the valley, from the end of the canal near 
Guilford for two miles, to be spanned by wooden framework, 
supporting a galvanized iron trough; from thence to Pott’s 
Hill, a distance of three miles, wrought iron pipes of 30 
inches diameter to be laid excepting across the valley of 
Duck Creek, where the pipes would be subject to a head of 
about 110 feet, 36 inch cast iron pipes, to be provided by 
the Government would be required; from Potts’ Hill to No. 
4 Dam at Botany, a distance of 12 miles, to be covered by 
wrought iron pipes 20 inches diameter. All materials to be 
provided by the firm, excepting the 36 inch pipes. This 
enterprising firm lost no time in commencing the work, 
which was really of a much more formidable character than 
most people at the time were aware of. The creeks which 
had to be spanned were in out of the way places, difficult 
to approach, and exceedingly rugged and precipitous; the 
