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tant is the consideration that if the private lands which adjoin 

 the reservation are provided with a road frontage which looks 

 upon the public domain they will eventually be greatly in- 

 creased in attractiveness and value. 



These two principles taken together explain most of the 

 possible boundary lines submitted for your examination. Where 

 existing streets meet the requirement of the first principle, they 

 have been adopted as the boundary, as, for example, at Wash- 

 ington Street, Melrose, and Blue Hill Street, Canton. Where 

 it has been necessary to devise new roads to serve as boun- 

 daries, this has been done, with due respect to the first principle, 

 with due resfard for gn-ades and curves, and with care to exclude 

 improved lands, and lands which will ultimately become 

 especially suitable for building sites. 



It remains to mention three classes of exceptions to the 

 principle of the existing or proposed road boundary. 



In some places it has proved necessary, for the sake of 

 economy, to exclude from the reservations, by arbitrary lines, 

 improved lands which would have been included under our first 

 principle had they not been occupied by buildings : as, for 

 example, at two places on Washington Street in Melrose, and 

 a^ain at Summit Street in Maiden. 



In some places the reverse operation has proved desirable, 

 and tracts of wild land which w^ould have been excluded under 

 our second principle have been included in the reservation by 

 arbitrary lines, because some subordinate yet still important 

 element of the scenery of the reservation could by so doing 

 be preserved : as, for example, along the north side of the 

 valley of Furnace Brook in the Quincy section of the Blue 

 Hills Reservation, where there has been included the face of a 

 ridge which is in view from the w^hole basin of the brook, 

 althouofh the road must here be within the reservation in the 

 valley of the brook. Houghton's Pond has been shown as 

 included in the Blue Hills Reservation for the same reason. 

 It is not an essential part of the hill scenery, but it is an 

 exceedinglv valuable addition thereto. 



In some places, after a road boundary had been studied and 

 mapped, the line was found to lie in such relations to adjacent 

 or parallel township boundaries that rather than leave parts of 

 townships isolated from the main body it was deemed best to 



