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on the upper level, which will command a view of the ocean. The 

 connections with the various entrances are proposed to be made as 

 shown on the plan, and the whole length of drive thus provided for 

 is about five miles and a half. 



The bridle road is so laid out on the plan, that by increasing the 

 size of some archways needed for other purposes, it may, if desired, 

 be kept distinct from the carriage road and the footpaths through 

 the whole length of its circuit. It follows generally the line of the 

 main road, sometimes in immediate connection with it, and some- 

 times passing along at a considerable distance from it. The whole 

 length of the bridle road laid out on the plan is about four miles. 



The drive and the bridle road being thus arranged for, the sys- 

 tem of walks proposed by the plan will next require to be described. 

 It is very important to the comfort of pedestrians, that they should 

 be able to proceed into the park from the entrances that will be 

 chiefly used, without having to cross over the circuit drive or bridle 

 road, and that, when once fairly in among the trees and grass 

 stretches, they should be able to ramble over the whole extent of the 

 property with as much apparent freedom as if the whole park had 

 been intended solely for their enjoyment. 



There are two points in the design which may be said to be cen- 

 tral points, so far as the walk system is concerned : the summit 

 level of the Lookout Hill overlooking the ocean, and the large open 

 air hall of reception shown on the plan, near the principal carriage 

 concourse already described. All the leading lines will be found to 

 tend in these directions, and the intermediate walks are designed to 

 give variety and intricacy, without interfering with this general in- 

 tention of the design. From the main entrance two walks are pro- 

 posed to start. One passes near the north-eastern boundary, and 

 leads to the reservoir bridge over Flatbush avenue ; it then con- 

 tinues in a southerly direction, skirting the deer paddock, and ter- 

 minates at the music concourse. A branch of this walk passes 

 under the carriage road, near the main entrance, and opens directly 

 on to the meadow stretch which forms the northern division of the 

 great green. The walk passes around this meadow, and crossing 

 the green, commands a full view of its whole extent; then through 

 the woods into a ravine by the side of the brook and by an arched 

 passage under the carriage road to the lawn-like open ground north 

 of the Lookout Hill ; then again through the woods till it meets the 

 line, already described, which leads to the music concourse. 



The second walk that starts from the main entrance passes in a 

 rather more westerly direction. It has the same general tendency 



