KEPORT. 



TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION. 



The elevated ridge which is the distinguishing feature in 

 the topography of the western portion of Long Island, and 

 which, from the depressed character of the adjacent lands, 

 commands a very extensive tract of country, possesses in its 

 entire extent no other point from which the eye can embrace 

 so wide a field of marine and inland scenery, as that division 

 of it which has been selected for and devoted to the purposes 

 of public recreation, and known as the " Prospect Park of 

 Brooklyn." 



The boundaries of the park, as defined by the Act of the 

 State Legislature, passed April 17th, 1S60, are as follows : Be- 

 ginning at the intersection of Warren street and Washington 

 avenue ; thence running southerly along Washington avenue, 

 to the city line at Montgomery street ; thence southwesterly, 

 in a straight line to a point one thousand feet easterly in a 

 straight line from the intersection of Ninth street with the city 

 line; thence to the intersection of the city line and Ninth 

 street ; thence northwesterly along Ninth street to Tenth ave- 

 nue ; thence northerly along Tenth avenue to the northerly 

 side of Third street ; thence northwesterly along Third street 

 to Ninth avenue; thence northerly along Ninth avenue to 

 Flatbush avenue ; thence along Flatbush avenue to Yanderbilt 

 avenue; thence along Yanderbilt avenue to Warren street; 

 thence easterly along Warren street to Washington avenue, at 

 the place of beginning. The space bounded by these lines is 

 as diversified in surface and vegetation as any spot, containing 

 the same area, can possibly be. Nearly in the center lies the 

 new Distributing Keservoir, from which a panoramic view is 

 obtained of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, the inner 

 and outer harbors, with their fleets of ships and steamers, a 



