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Again, the enclosure set off' for the pasturage of deer is so arranged 

 that while tlie visitor cannot enter it, he will not notice any artificial 

 obstruction. It will appear a bright, sunny little meadow, with spark- 

 ling water, lost in the distance under trees, and this will come at a 

 turn of the road between two stretches which will he all in shadow, 

 and where the view will have been for a time closely confined by 

 dense underwood. 



Again, the Kings County Parade Ground, while entirely outside the 

 Park boundary, is so placed that it serves a very important, and, in- 

 deed, almost invaluable landscape purpose when seen from the 

 high grounds within the Park ; and so of every other special ground 

 which is now intended to be connected with it. 



There is no object to be accomplished by appropriating the ground 

 in question to any form of garden, which would not he much better 

 served by establishing it in some other part of the city, where it would 

 incidentally give the advantage of an airing ground to persons living 

 at too great a distance from the Park, to habitually resort to it with 

 ease and frequency. The residents of the Ninth and Twentieth 

 Wards can hardly claim to he in this condition, and the supposition 

 is a mistaken one that they would experience any serious additional 

 difficulty in reaching a pleasure ground, if the site which the Commis- 

 sion proposes to discard is laid out with a view to an improvement of 

 the general approaches to the Park, instead of to any purpose which 

 would involve its enclosure. The additional distance to be traveled 

 over from all the house lots in the Ninth Ward to the entrances of the 

 present Park and to those which were planned under the old scheme, 

 east of Flatbush Avenue, will be crossed by a carriage driven at the 

 rate of six miles an hour, in seventy-five seconds. The difference to 

 those approaching on foot, considering the Reservoir grounds as a 

 part of the Park, will be less than that. From all the house lots of 

 the Twentieth Ward the present Park will, on an average, he entered 

 sooner than the Park as formerly planned, east of Flatbush Avenue, 

 could have been. 



The principal reasons which have led to the preference of other grouud 

 for the Park over that east of the Plaza have now been given, and we 

 may add in a lew words the reason for the arrangement recommended 

 for the laying out of the discarded ground. As the street lines had 

 been originally established, those on the east side appeared to approach 

 the Park less advantageously than those on the west, in the plans 



