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nary purposes of a street with, any other. It neverthe- 

 less differs essentially from an ordinary business street, 

 in that the process which we have described, by which 

 wagon- ways were introduced into the old streets, has 

 been carried one step further, the wagon-way having 

 itself been divided as the foot- way formerly was, and a 

 space of ground having been introduced, within which 

 there is a shaded walk or mall, and a bridle-road, with 

 strips of turf and trees. The Champs des Elysees, Paris, 

 may also be quoted as a sample in point. 



NATURAL INCENTIVES. 



To this region will be drawn by all the irresistible 

 force of early associations, the self-made men of the 

 land ; men who have come from " pastures green " in 

 the rural districts, and from nothing made their for- 

 tunes in the great metropolis. 



Such a neighborhood would not merely be more 

 attractive, to the prosperous class generally of the 

 metropolis, than any which can be elsewhere formed 

 within a much greater distance from the commercial 

 centre, but that it will especially meet the requirements 

 of an element in the community that is constantly 

 growing larger, and that is influenced by associations 

 and natural tastes that unquestionably deserve to be 

 fostered and encouraged. A typical case, for the sake 

 of illustrating the class in view, may be thus presented. 

 A country boy receives a common school education, 

 exhibits ability, and at a comparatively early age finds 

 himself engaged in business in a provincial town ; as 

 his experience and capacity increase, he seeks enlarged 

 opportunities for the exercise of his powers, and being 

 of superior calibre, ultimately finds himself drawn by 



