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necessary, and means must be carefully studied of reconciling 

 such accommodations with the purpose of giving the public the 

 largest practicable extent of rural scenery, and of rural exer- 

 cising ground. As, for this purpose, the drives must not, as al- 

 ready explained, be very wide, and as the movement both ways (in 

 order to give opportunity for the recognition of acquaintances) 

 must be slow, it is desirable that such provision should be origi- 

 nally secured in such a place that people can make a considerable 

 circuit within the park, if they choose, without entering upon them 

 at all. 



The part of your park thus intended exclusively for rural recrea- 

 tion is complete within itself, and a circuit of it can be made upon 

 both its drives and walks, without entering upon the promenade dis- 

 trict, which, indeed, lies completely hidden from it, except as the tree- 

 tops and the water within it extend the background of the view from 

 certain points. 



According to the plans you have approved, the portion of the 

 drive more especially intended to be used as a promenade, is to be 

 nowhere less than fifty feet in width ; in the greater part, sixty feet. 

 Its length, not including the turning-places at the ends, is to be three- 

 quarters of a mile. A pad for saddle-horses will adjoin it, thirty 

 feet wide. At certain points it will be separated a short distance 

 from the drive, in order to avoid too extended a bare surface. Ad- 

 joining the pad, and again on the opposite side of the drive, are to be 

 walks fifteen to twenty feet wide. Near the middle of the system 

 sheltered galleries are arranged, where those who wish can sit and 

 look upon those moving by. The width of the whole promenade 

 ways at this point, for a distance of two hundred and fifty feet, is to 

 be one hundred and eighty feet ; the pad and the drive being thrown 

 together, and the walks brought to curbs upon them. One of the 

 walks will spread laterally to beaches or bays of the lake, and there 

 will be an outlet from it upon a boat landing. Throughout the 

 whole extent of the promenade ways a succession of views will be 

 commanded, with the back to the sun over the lake. On the side 

 toward the sun will be a dense plantation of trees and underwood. 

 Planted points and islands are arranged to cover the broader bare 

 spaces of the promenade from the view of boating parties and the 

 opposite shores, and to supply strong foregrounds to the views 

 northward. There are to be rows of trees within and upon the 

 edge of the drive, it being impossible to avoid long spaces, which 

 would be unpleasantly exposed to the sun by any wholly natural 

 arrangement of trees, consistently with convenience of movement 



