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an average width of forty (40) feet. The arrangement of the lines 

 and curves, at the junction, is such that carriages coming into the 

 park will continue to proceed for a few hundred feet in a southeast- 

 erly direction, after reaching the circuit drive, and will thus be 

 fairly started on the road that it is intended they should follow, 

 for, although the formation of the ground naturally suggests this 

 treatment of the lines, we should, under any circumstances, have 

 made an effort to arrange the plan in some such way as is indicated 

 in the design, because the southeasterly branch leads more directly 

 into the heart of the park. It commands, moreover, from a point 

 very near the entrance, a view in the direction of the length of what 

 is now an unplanted stretch of ground, but which is treated in the 

 design as open lawn or meadow, dotted with trees, it being the in- 

 tention to reduce the height of a low, narrow ridge that crosses this 

 piece of ground, so that its real extent may be fairly seen from the 

 drive. 



Continuing on the course already indicated, the road soon curves 

 to the right, and ascends to a point from which it is proposed to ob- 

 tain an extensive view, in a westerly direction, over the great green 

 of the park. From this point the road descends into the wooded 

 defile where an old wayside inn now stands, marking the ground held 

 by the Continental forces in an engagement during the battle of Long 

 Island, at which point it will be practicable, in perfecting the plan 

 of the park to provide for some architectural memento of that im- 

 portant struggle. 



Passing through the defile, a view is obtained over a pretty glade 

 of turf to the left, intended to be used as a grazing ground for deer, 

 and bounded on the opposite side by the thick coppice-wood which 

 already effectually conceals the Flatbush avenue. Keeping to the 

 right of the deer paddock, the drive continues to pass through the 

 woods, but presently divides into two somewhat narrower branches, 

 by which means full advantage is taken of the already existing 

 opportunities for shade, and the standing trees are less interfered 

 with than would otherwise be necessary, and then, reuniting, 

 continues to run in a southerly direction, till it approaches the 

 proposed Franklin avenue boundary line. At this point it divides 

 again, and one branch enlarges almost directly into the open space 

 previously described as the music concourse. The other branch or 

 main line of drive, after passing the two entrances to the concourse, 

 is carried round the head of the Lake, and 1 along the shore in a 

 westerly direction, till it approaches the proposed Coney Island 

 road boundary. It then curves to the northward, still following the 



