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sary to employ a watchman to protect the trees and shrubbery 

 from depredation. 



It is gratifying to observe that the public taste in reference 

 to city parks continues to force its claims upon public author- 

 ities elsewhere than in New York and Brooklyn. The city of 

 Baltimore has taken initiatory steps for a park, which will do 

 credit to the Monumental City. But while the great Central 

 Park of New York, costing its millions of dollars, will, perhaps, 

 in all time hold its superiority over any other which may be 

 conceived or executed as a mere work of art, and while other 

 cities may exhibit parks, ample in their extent and creditable 

 for the good taste of their plans, the Prospect Park of the city 

 of Brooklyn must always be conceded as the great natural 

 park of the country ; presenting the most majestic views of 

 land and ocean, with panoramic changes more varied and beau- 

 tiful than can be found within the boundries of any city on this 

 continent. 



Dated January, 1862. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



J. S. T. STRANAHAN, 

 President Board of Corners of Prospect Park. 



R. H. Thompson, 



Secretary. 



