The National Magazine. New Series. A Monthly Review. September 1898

The Lake of Geneva receives its supply of water from the melting of the snows and glaciers on the mountains of Savoy. [...] The residents of the city of Geneva it is well-known drink the purest of waters : it contains only 38 microbes in a cubic centimetre ; whereas the water of Paris the purest of its five supplies contains in a like volume 1 250 of the infiniment petits and in others as many as 3 825 and for that quality the pipe water-tax is 12 centimes nearly one-eighth of a franc per cubic metre. [...] The projected Geneva water would be taken from a point in the lake 1 207 feet above the level of the sea and conveyed in pipes and underground tunnels for 317 miles to the clamast heights a suburb of Paris 333 feet above the level of the Seine. [...] Of the three acts the first is gay and full of animation ; the others are sad and pathetic : the music is easy and clear. [...] The Onam feast generally falls on the Tiruvanam day in the month of Simha-12th August to 12th September—when the full moon is in the constenation of Sravana.