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adopt the township boundary as the boundary of the reserva- 

 tion. It was in this way, for example, that the township 

 boundary which divides Quincy from Randolph and Braintree 

 came to be sugofested as the southern boundary of the Blue 

 Hills Reservation. Another variety of this exceptional kind 

 of boundary is illustrated in several places about the Fells, 

 where arbitrary lines have been drawn so as to connect the new 

 reservation with pre-existing watershed reservations without 

 leaving wedges or islands of private lands between the two. 



The total length of alternative lines thus studied, mapped 

 and described by us for your consideration is about thirty 

 miles. 



Yours respectfully, 



OLMSTED, OLMSTED & ELIOT. 



