20 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Besides these, two markers have been set near the approaches 

 Arith the inscription 



LESTER PARK 



This reservation requires some inconsiderable expenditure for 

 the proper display of its interesting features. The Cryptozoon 

 ledge itself is, in the course of a summer's growth, carpeted with 

 patches of sod from which it should be kept free in order to make 

 the exposure of the ledge as effective as practicable. Experience 

 shows that this grass must be removed at least twice in a season. 

 On the other side of the road opposite the ledge the surroundings 

 cf the quarry are grown up to brush and brambles and all of this 

 should be cut out and kept repressed so that access may be free and 

 inviting. In addition to the thicket which now covers much of this 

 larger portion of the reservation, much rubbish has accumulated, 

 which for the sake of propriety should be removed. Undoubtedly, 

 when the work indicated has been once done, supervision twice 

 during the season would keep the place in satisfactory and attrac- 

 tive condition. 



2 Clark Reservation. This reservation is situated four miles 

 southeast of Syracuse on the State road known as the Seneca turn- 

 pike. The remarkable features of this interesting place have been 

 described in a previous report. The original purchase by Airs 

 F. F. Thompson, the donor of the property, consisted of y6 acres, 

 and to this was added by subsequent purchase the outflow region 

 at the east, making the present total area of the .reserve 109.7 acres. 

 Mrs Thompson has embellished this gift by beginning the erection 

 of a suitable entrance where the reservation borders the State road. 

 The entrance is a double curved stone wall with a graded road 

 between, the design being effective and substantial. Some of the 

 stone necessary for the composition of this wall in accordance with 

 the specifications of the designer are of such large size as to impose 

 some difficulties in finding them, but a limestone ledge has been 

 located which can supply these large dimension pieces, and the 

 work was under construction when the frost and snow interfered 

 with further progress. It will be completed in the early spring 

 within the contract price of $3900. 



With the completion of this entrance and gateway we shall have 

 put aside from encroachment by the public a highly instructive 

 natural monument. It has never been the intention of the Depart- 

 ment, acting as custodian of this and other properties, to attempt 

 to treat them as parks but rather as reservations set aside for their 



