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the esplanade, or continues on the circuit to the main entrance. 

 An intersecting road from " The Lake " and " The Forest " 

 passes through " The Battle Pass," and meets the main drive 

 at " The Parade." A side road for equestrians, and a walk 

 for pedestrians, accompany the main drive. Certain minor 

 walks and other details are shown on the plan, but these of 

 course are incidental and subordinate to the leading features 

 of improvement. Rustic seats and arbors, where interior 

 views or shaded retreats shall indicate, winding paths through 

 wooded dells, of which there are a number, miniature lakes 

 where the topography and supply of water will permit — all 

 these follow in the progress of the improvement. 



" The Plan," as sketched, is believed to be consistent with 

 the character and situation of the ground, to contain every 

 feature which it is desirable to provide within the area, and 

 to require for its execution a sum much below the value of the 

 results attained. 



Flatbush Avenue. — This avenue, as has been stated, runs 

 diagonally through the park, and is excluded from its limits, 

 being reserved as a means of transit to the suburbs. It may 

 nevertheless be made to form a striking feature in the general 

 design of improvement. Its peculiar location is such that it 

 opens a view through Brooklyn, of a portion of the harbor — 

 and in the other direction, through Flatbush, of the ocean: 

 By planting a double row of trees on each side, it will form a 

 fine promenade, while the trees will soon hide from view the 

 disagreeable accompaniments of a traffic road. If the cobble- 

 stone pavement with which it is now paved could be exchanged 

 for a smoother material, it would have the effect to diminish 

 the noise, which, from the character of the travel over it, would 

 be inseparable from the use of this kind of pavement. 



ENCLOSURE. 

 The necessity of preserving from mutilation the fine growth 

 of trees now existing, and of affording an opportunity for 

 developing the strength of the soil, requires that the park 

 should at once be enclosed with a substantial fence of some 

 kind. There are a large quantity of boulders which might be 

 prepared for a stone wall ; but the time that would be required 

 to remove them from their beds in the earth, and the expense 



