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garden, replacing an open stone ditch and draining other 
areas which were prolific mosquito breeders. 
Roads and Paths 
The Telford foundation for a small portion of the drive- 
way under construction south of the mansion was laid with 
stone obtained during grading work, and there is enough 
loose stone in the area near the eastern end of this un- 
finished drive to pave a considerable part of it. The 
completion of this road is much to be desired and it will 
finish the driveway system of the entire reservation as at 
present planned. Its completion will permit the elimina- 
tion of the narrow and very dangerous road which ap- 
proaches the mansion from the north, which may then 
revert to a path as originally planned; there have been 
several accidents on this narrow road and it should be 
done away with as soon as possible. It is planned, how- 
ever, to retain the driveway approach to the mansion 
from the south, but this should be widened as a measure 
of precaution and to accommodate the continually increas- 
ing travel, as contemplated on the approved general plan. 
In order, as soon as possible, to restrict pedestrians to 
paths, work on path construction was commenced during 
the season on the part of the additional land lying west of 
the Bronx River, and a path has been partially completed 
extending north from the Linnaean bridge along the west 
side of the river for a distance of about goo feet, then 
diverging from the river and entering the hemlock grove 
about 600 feet further northwest, designed to reach the 
gorge bridge about 700 feet further north. ‘The comple- 
tion of this path, which it is hoped to accomplish during 
1916, will provide a continuous walk the entire length of 
the reservation from Pelham Avenue to the southern end 
of the Bronx Parkway, near and along the river. Stone 
for paving this path may be assembled during the winter. 
In building the iris garden at the southwestern corner of 
the additional land, paths about 500 feet long were nearly 
