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Excerpt from Description of the Boston Water Works: Illustrated With Five Lithographic Plates
Lake Cochituate, formerly known as Long Pond, the main source from which the supply of water for the city of Boston 18 taken may be considered a chain of natural, subsiding Reservoirs of water, three ln number, having a general direction nearly north and south; its extreme length m a direct line being about three and one-half miles, and, its greatest breadth about eighteen hundred feet.
Two county roads crossing it, divide it into three nearly equal parts, which for convenient reference, are designated as the Northern, Central and Southern Divisions.
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