. Essex county, , illustrated . plays. Little thought had the millions of the needsof their future, when, as a warning, as it were, came thescarcity now and then of that abundance of water providedbv the Almighty for mans necessities, but which had beenpermitted to slip unmolested away. PEQUANNOCK WATER. UI from the granite beds of ironbound Sussex rush the purewaters from the fast flowing riversestablished in earths throbbing join hands with the streams fromrock ribbed channels of Warren, andliy the outlets of ten thousand livingsprings scattered all over their broadacres and alo
. Essex county, , illustrated . plays. Little thought had the millions of the needsof their future, when, as a warning, as it were, came thescarcity now and then of that abundance of water providedbv the Almighty for mans necessities, but which had beenpermitted to slip unmolested away. PEQUANNOCK WATER. UI from the granite beds of ironbound Sussex rush the purewaters from the fast flowing riversestablished in earths throbbing join hands with the streams fromrock ribbed channels of Warren, andliy the outlets of ten thousand livingsprings scattered all over their broadacres and along their mountain andhill sides to join in holy wedlock their^weet waters wherever they their errands of mercy to man and-inging the songs in such bewitchingtrains as to entrance, while theyMSsed under the title of Pei|uannockI Passaic. For ages unnamed and ages untoldese waters rolled on to old oceanle gormant never yet filled, used itunly to delight the sportive fishes, play-ing • hide and seek in its crystalnt on in the. JAMES JOHNSTON, COMMISSION R To waste its power and thought In rolling and rollicking Where ibesca foam each day. Was spending its time in boisterous play, and giving proof, for mans use, of how dangerous it is for thepure and good bad company to keep. When the cry of necessity was first heard, going up from thethousands for a larger and better supply of pure water,whose business or taste, had induced to gather in the dry littlenooks, close by where once ran so sprightly, the brook or therivulet, from whose bosom the wee little trout with specks onhis skin so beautiful and bright, leaped through the sunlight inpursuit of his unwary little fly or the barbed steel hook, on hisway to the basket hanging by the side of an Isaac Waltonscholar and thence lothe frying pan. Scarce two years has run the gauntlet of time since the watersupply of Essex County was drawn from the well pollutedsprings of Branch Brook, alone, where young America in easilywas
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