Steam engines and hydraulic rams for fountains

The steam-engine is often employed to force up water for the supply of fountains in many of the large public and royal gardens; but there are few cases in this country where private expenditures of this kind would be justifiable. But where a small stream, or even the overflow of a perpetual spring, can be commanded, the Hydraulic Ram is the most perfect as well as the simplest and cheapest of all modes of raising water. A supply pipe of an inch in diameter is in many cases sufficient to work the Ram and force water to a great distance; and where sufficient to fill a "driving pipe" of two inches diameter can be commanded, a large reservoir may be kept constantly filled. As the Hydraulic Ram is now for sale in all our cities we need not explain its action.