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to form the base, gutters of small stone are laid on either side. 

 The width of the ride is twenty feet, and for a considerable dis- 

 tance it runs adjacent to and parallel with the drive. With the 

 exception of a small portion along the base of Lookout Hill, the 

 rides contemplated in the design are completed. 



WALKS. 



The Westdale walk has been extended from the picnic woods, 

 Tunning generally parallel with the west drive, turning by the 

 cemetery, and connecting with the walks near the pools, then com- 

 pleting the circuit of the Long Meadow. The walk connection 

 with the Ninth street entrance has also been graded, and its super- 

 structure completed. The Ambergill walk, and also the Esdale 

 walk, from the pools to the Nethermead arches, were originally 

 formed of gravel. This was found to be unsatisfactory in bad 

 weather, and very expensive to maintain, and were accordingly 

 surfaced with concrete, with a satisfactory result. A portion of 

 the Westdale walk has been treated in the same way for similar 

 reasons. The walks unfinished at the date of the last report, west 

 of Cleft-ridge Span, have been completed by surfacing with tar 

 concrete. The walk on the easterly side of Breeze Hill has been 

 laid with a cement pavement, by the Patent Steam Artificial Stone 

 Company. The walks on the south lake and west lake districts 

 have been all laid with concrete pavements, by the Schrimshaw 

 Company, Evans Co?npany, and Long Island Composite Asphalt 

 Company respectively. The walk on the west side of Lookout 

 Hill has been finished to the site of the proposed suspension 

 bridge. At all of the road crossings a road-step has been placed, 

 for the convenience of visitors in carriages who may desire to go 

 upon the walks. A part of the walk on the Franklin avenue circle 

 has been laid in cement of an ornamental pattern. 



LAKES, POOLS, AND WATER-COURSES. 



The clay used for puddling the bottom and slopes of the large 

 lake, and which was obtained from the deer paddock pool, has 

 proved in the main satisfactory for the purpose. The amount of 

 water lost by infiltration is small, and this- will, no doubt, substan- 

 tially cease, as the fine silt which is wasted from the roads through 

 the drainage outlets is deposited in the bottom. With the usual 

 amount of rainfall for the summer season,'it is believed that the 

 lake will reach its highest established level within the next or en- 

 suing season. The uniform maintenance of this level must depend 



