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beginning about ioo feet west of said bridge, leading 

 in a northerly direction and connecting with the path lead- 

 ing north; these paths are all graded, line stones laid and 

 a part of them paved or filled in with broken rock. They 

 measure 1,100 feet. 



Grading of the slope between the river road and the new 

 path, about thirty-five feet in width, has been regulated, 

 covered with twelve inches of top soil, borders sodded and 

 the slope sown a distance of 500 feet in length; the sur- 

 plus earth obtained from said slope and from the side hill 

 east of the road, amounting to 2,211 cubic yards, was 

 used to fill low portions of the meadows, and the top soil 

 covering has been obtained from the grading of the new 

 paths in this area. 



Improvements of the paths west of the Boulder Bridge 

 were carried east over the bridge, extended to the east and 

 south, and connected with the existing path leading north, 

 measuring 460 feet. North of the bridge the river has been 

 widened to about seventy-five feet, and south of the bridge 

 a cut was excavated twenty feet in width and 400 feet in 

 length, to form an additional channel for the river, thus 

 creating an island measuring about twenty feet in width. 



Northeast of the bridge a lake was dug, measuring 175 

 by 50 feet and 3 feet in depth, and a land drain from the east 

 connected with it; the earth obtained from these excavations 

 amounting to 2,600 cubic yards. The top soil was used to 

 grade the surrounding area and the earth to fill in a swampy 

 pocket of the river south of the path. This whole area, 

 measuring about 300 by 200 feet, was regulated, graded and 

 planted in the autumn. 



The path northwest o: 

 about 300 feet, graded a 

 slope near the driveway filled in and partly regulated and 

 sodded. 



Work on additional paths near the northeast corner of the 

 Garden was progressing when the close of the season in 

 December put a stop to it. 



