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to mar the symmetry of its present fine proportions, but 

 would entail an unnecessary expense upon our al- 

 ready heavily-burdened city. When the future wants 

 of our teeming population shall require more extended 

 Park accommodations, as n<> doubt they will, the 

 Commissioners believe the public convenience will 

 be better served by opening other Parks in different 

 and more remote sections of the city, than by adding 

 to the present ample dimensions of Prospect Park. 



In this connection, the Commissioners would add, that 

 the question of the best disposition to be made of the 

 land lying east of Flatbush Avenue, still remains unde- 

 termined. Subsequent reflection, aided by suggestions 

 contained in the more recent study which has been given 

 to the subject by our landscape architects, (their report 

 thereon being hereto appended) has confirmed the opinion 

 expressed by them three years since, when the present 

 Board first took up the consideration of the subject, that 

 the division of the Park by the broad thoroughfare which 

 connects the city with the large agricultural country 

 beyond it, would seriously interfere with those impres- 

 sions of amplitude and continuous extent, which are 

 necessary to landscape effect ; and that this objection 

 cannot be obviated by any reasonable amount of bridging, 

 which could be introduced for the purpose of connecting 

 the two portions together. The reservoir grounds also 

 encroach so largely upon the eastern section, that they in 

 effect, subdivide its two parts into very insignificant 

 dimensions for Park purposes. The formation of the 

 ground moreover, as was suggested in a former report of 

 our landscape architects on the subject, is of a character 

 that renders its improvement very expensive; and when 

 the best thing possible shall have been done, it must 

 always present a cramped, confined, and unsatisfactory 

 appearance. In addition to this, the full development of 



