8o LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 



behold a continued series of towns dotting the whole 

 region from the Mississippi to the Pacific constructed on 

 the one invariable rectangular pattern. Throughout all 

 varieties of natural scenery; the boundless plain; the 

 picturesque bluffs, commanding gorgeous views of lake 

 or river scenery ; the sublime ranges of mountains, glit- 

 tering with snow-clad peaks, smiling with green and 

 fertile valleys, frowning with deep caflons ; cities, towns 

 and villages are to be everywhere the same except in 

 size. It is idle to say that " these matters will regulate 

 themselves." They have not as yet given such evidence 

 of a desire for something better, as is indicated by a con- 

 sciousness of present error ; as witness San Francisco, 

 laid out in squares without the slightest reference to the 

 inequalities of her site ; witness Denver, laid out in 

 squares on a gracefully rounded hill, commanding such a 

 mountain view as is worth crossing the Atlantic to see, 

 but of which no entire view can be obtained fron> any 

 one point within the city ; whereas if a fine boulevard 

 had been arranged circling the hill, it would for all future 

 time have furnished so magnificent a drive, and such a 

 site for residences, commanding the whole mountain 

 chain from Long's to Pike's Peak as would have given a 

 distinct character to the city, and would have brought 

 more wealth to it and what is better, more men and 

 women of refined taste and culture, than all the 

 temples of mammon which are established forever on 

 the site; and witness the multitudes of towns laid out in 

 squares on the bottoms and bluffs of the Mississippi and 

 Missouri rivers, the founders of which have bequeathed 



