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at pictures in an art gallery. A park should fur- 

 nish such scenery and be in restful contrast to busy 

 streets. 



A few features that exist or have existed near 

 cities might here be noted. In the outskirts of 

 one city is a stream which has worn its way deep 

 into a bed of limestone rock. At the upper edge 

 of the often overhanging rock, thirty or forty feet 

 above the bed of the stream, the ground slopes 

 back and is covered with trees. This slope is very 

 steep and could not be used for crops or buildings. 

 The trees and vines spreading out over the irreg- 

 ular rocky cliff made with the stream below a 

 beautiful picture. Many admired this picture and 

 wished that the stream, the rocks and the trees 

 might belong to the city and be included in a park 

 so that they could be preserved for all time, but 

 the owner of the land thought the trees had value 

 as wood and cut them down. 



A city is located in a valley a mile or two in width, 

 this valley being bounded by high bluffs or hills. 

 These hills were originally wooded. A portion of 

 one of the hills was purchased by a public-spirited 

 citizen and given to the city for a park. In other 

 parts the bluffs have been scarred by rectangular 



