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will be impossible to lay out a spacious and attractive roadway- 

 leading in this direction without destroying very valuable property. 

 During the next two or three years, however, it would probably be 

 found practicable to make such local modifications in the general 

 street system as would leave it no less convenient than at present, 

 and yet would allow of the introduction of a broad boulevard, 

 shaded by agreeable plantations, and adapted for use as a pleasure 

 drive, ride and walk. The route suggested would make frequent 

 curves and considerable inequalities of surface desirable, and this 

 circumstance would operate to prevent its general use for any other 

 purpose than for pleasure travel and access to the buildings by which 

 it would be lined. 



Even if it should not be thought expedient to undertake such an 

 improvement immediately, the ground might be secured and the 

 city map modified with reference to its' construction in the future. 

 It would practically extend the park to the rear of Williamsburgh, 

 and, at a comparatively low price, would add much more to its real 

 utility than any equal area of land that could now be secured on its 

 immediate border. 



Up to this time, those who have built expensive houses in the dis- 

 tricts which lie much to the eastward, of the present centre of popu- 

 lation of the city, have evidently been led to do so, because the oppor- 

 tunity has here been offered, to lay out villa residences on a liberal 

 scale, which is not elsewhere practicable within the city limits, or on 

 New York island, within equal distance of Wall street. 



It is, doubtless, for the interest of the city of Brooklyn that such 

 men should not be driven beyond its limits, and that others of simi- 

 lar tastes should be attracted to build within them, an object which 

 would be greatly aided by the opening of spacious and agreeable 

 suburban thoroughfares, especially if these were so designed as to 

 practically secure the advantages of proximity to the park to all 

 who should live near them. 



The various duties of superintendence of work on the park are, 

 for the sake of convenience, divided into two classes, each supervised 

 by an assistant engineer, and both comprehended in the more general 

 responsibility of the engineer in charge. 



The first includes the duties of the topographical survey, the 

 elaboration of the designs in working drawings and details of 

 measurement, in exact correspondence with the data furnished by 

 the topographical survey ; the transference of the designs in this 

 form to the ground in such ways as may be required to enable the 



