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had more favorably impressed the members than had the 
plans and the forethought of Llewellyn Haskel in his 
scheme for the county boulevards extending from Newark 
to the mountain crest; these avenues in turn to be con- 
nected by a crest boulevard along the top of the First Moun- 
tain. In the study as to how this idea could be utilized in 
the park scheme then under consideration, it was practically 
agreed that the plans for the park system should embody 
this feature of a mountain boulevard, at least from the pro- 
posed Eagle Rock Reservation, south as far as the Walker 
road or South Orange avenue, a distance of two or three 
miles. 
It was intended that this crest boulevard should be one of 
the great features of the park and parkway system, with its 
beautiful vistas and commanding views opening from the 
crest along the edge of the cliffs; then diverging back where 
extensive improvements existed, giving the western slopes 
and view of the mountain beyond; and then emerging again 
to the great view stretching out from the cliff itself—and 
by these changes enhancing the beauty of the whole. Also 
that Central avenue should be continued up the mountain 
after the Swiss Mountain road plan, winding or “zigzaging” 
up the mountain side at an easy grade, up which horses or 
vehicles might proceed at a fair rate of speed. 
The object in extending the line, at least as far as the 
points indicated, was to make this intended mountain park- 
way at the apex of the park system topography accessible 
and convenient to the mass of people of the county. With 
the location and construction of this parkway there would 
be, from the base of the mountain below, an almost un- 
broken area of the compactly built up portion of the county 
from that line direct to the Passaic River. For like reason 
it was deemed in every way desirable that a park location of 
suitable size should be selected on and back of the crest, 
somewhere between the Northfield road and some point 
south of the terminus of the mountain cable road. In this 
way not only would the crest boulevard become a most at- 
tractive and convenient central feature of the park system, 
