London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 401
e think, be somethingradically bad in the geographical police of a country, in whichnot only the water of all the rivers is more or less polluted, butin which an immense quantity of the most valuable descriptionof manure is habitually and irrecoverably lost. If a system of intercepting sewers were… … Improvcmenl ofthe Banks of the Thames. 381 country serve as its main sewers, as is at present the case, notonly in Britain, but throughout the world, is to be perseveredin, it may be reasonably pronounced impossible ever to obtainperfectly pure water in large quantities in densely peopled…
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