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of this tract is already being made. (Fig. 12.) The stream itself 

 is not made use of, and its borders within the park are essentially 

 waste. Broad Street (Fig. 13) and Bryden Road (Fig. 14), 

 shady well kept residence streets, connect the park with the 

 business district. At the west end of the city, two State Insti- 

 tutions, the Asylums for the Insane and for the Feeble-minded 

 have spacious green and shade areas lying over the definite 

 bluffs of the Scioto and on both the till plain above and the 

 flood plain below. (Fig. 11.) Neither reaches the river. They 



Fig. 13. East Broad vStrect. Fine residence properties and splendid drives on 



the even till plain. 



are not in any sense public parks, yet in some respects they 

 serve that function and might be greatly beautified by taking 

 advantage of more of their geographic setting. 



In a similar manner the State University grounds (Fig. 15), 

 well north in the city, lie over the bluffs and upon adjacent 

 upper and lower plains along the Olentangy River and a small 

 tributary ravine. A very little effort has here been made to use 

 natural beauty by restraining the waters of a group of springs 

 for a lake, and limiting their flow to one large spring bowl. Not 

 half as much has been accomplished as might be to make 

 attractive a really pretty natural site. A private company has 



