water-carriage

On page 28: “As by means of water-carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry then what land-carriage alone afford it, so it us upon the sea-coast and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind begins to subdivide and improve itself.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

On page 28: “As by means of water-carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry then what land-carriage alone afford it, so it us upon the sea-coast and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind begins to subdivide and improve itself.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

Amidst a long discussion, which he “crammed into mine ear against the stomach of my sense,” I only remember, that it was part of his project to preserve a portion of the lake just deep enough and broad enough for the purposes of water-carriage, so that coal-barges and gabbards should pass as easily between Dumbarton and Glenfalloch as between Glasgow and Greenock.

Rob Roy 2005

As we were now not far from the latitude of Mozambique, I was somewhat tempted to strike away from the river to that port, instead of going to the S.E., in the direction the river flows; but, the great object of my journey being to secure water-carriage, I resolved to continue along the

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

By the _water-carriage method_ is understood the system by which sewage, solid and liquid, is flushed out by means of water, through pipes or conduits called sewers, from the houses through the streets to the final destination.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

The immediate disposal of sewage is accomplished by two methods -- the so-called _dry_, and the _water-carriage_ methods.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

The tea lands are for the most part advantageously situated, within convenient reach of water-carriage, either by the 'Dickhoo,'

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

= -- Whenever the water-carriage system is used, it is either intended to carry only sewage proper, viz., solid and liquid excreta flushed by water, or fain water and other waste water from the household in addition.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

The water-carriage system is accordingly divided into two systems: _the combined_, by which all sewage and all waste and rain water are carried through the sewers, and the _separate_ system, in which two groups of pipes are used -- the sewers proper to carry sewage only, and the other pipes to dispose of rain water and other uncontaminated waste water.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

While the former is not absolutely essential, as a house may have a system of plumbing without there being a sewer in the street, still in the water-carriage system of disposal of sewage the street sewer is the outlet for the various waste and excrementitious matter of the house.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow