282 The Green Park. 



the existing gate (I) of the garden wall, or any other fence, up 

 to Hyde Park Corner. Then the whole space (B), included 

 betwixt the fence and the water is to be laid out, and to 

 form a part of Kensington Gardens, with several entrances. 

 These are all the alterations, additional to what are now going 

 on, proposed to be made in Hyde Park; and on contemplating 

 them, it will be evident, that a most important and interesting 

 change would be effected. Parties coming in their carriages 

 would have a continued and delightful drive from one end 

 of the water to the other; and the opposite banks would now 

 present a varied and agreeable scene, from being converted 

 into a garden, and filled with company : or, if walking was 

 preferred, a party might enter the gardens at one gate (m), send 

 the carriage to the other (e), and find a dry and pleasant walk 

 along the water's edge, free from dust and all annoyances, 

 yet enlivened by the carriages and bustle on the other side. 



The Green Park. — The water in Hyde Park is, by means 

 of a tunnel, to be continued into the Green Park (C), and, 

 spreading along the whole front of Piccadilly, terminate in a 

 waterfall; it is also to supply fountains in St. James's Park. 

 Then that portion called Constitution Hill will be converted 

 into garden scenery, and at the corner (o), where you now 

 enter the Green Park, you will also enter this garden, which 

 will in fact be no less than commencing Kensington Gardens 

 at St. James's Palace, and continuing them through the Green 

 Park, and, by means of a walk through the tunnel, in one 

 uninterrupted extent of nearly two miles, with water the 

 whole of the way; and though it is proposed that these 

 gardens should be subject to the same regulations as Ken- 

 sington Gardens are at present, which do not prevent the ad- 

 mission of any decent persons, it might be advisable to remove 

 some of the restrictions ; but the exclusion of dogs and other 

 nuisances is certainly necessary. Such an extent of garden, 

 so regulated, and so centrically situated, would create a novel 

 and interesting feature in the metropolis, and could not fail 

 to ensure the approbation and applause of the public, for so 

 materially conducing to their comfort and convenience. In 

 the other part of the Green Park, which will as usual be open 

 to the free egress and ingress of the public, I would fill up 

 the basin, remove the ranger's house, continue the iron rail- 

 ings all along Piccadilly, and let there be a broad gravel 

 walk (s s), running parallel to it, at a sufficient distance to 

 avoid the dust, opening by two new gates [p and q). — The effect 

 of the alterations here will be extremely pleasing. From the 

 whole line of Piccadilly the water will act as a foreground to 

 a charming view of the Surrey hills, with the Abbey, the new 



