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able to proceed into the park from the entrances that will be chiefly 

 used, without having to cross over the circuit drive or bridle road, 

 and that, when once fairly in among the trees and grass stretches, 

 they should be able to ramble over the whole extent of the property 

 with as much apparent freedom as if the whole park had been in- 

 tended solely for their enjoyment. 



There are two points in the design which may be said to be cen- 

 tral points, so far as the walk system is concerned : the summit 

 level of the look-out hill overlooking the ocean, and the large open 

 air hall of reception shown on the plan, near the principal carriage 

 concourse already described. All the leading lines will be found to 

 tend in these directions, and the intermediate walks are designed to 

 give variety and intricacy, without interfering with this general in- 

 tention of the design. From the main entrance two walks are pro- 

 posed to start. One passes near the north-eastern boundary, and 

 leads to the reservoir bridge over Flatbush avenue ; it then con- 

 tinues in a southerly direction, skirting the deer paddock, and ter- 

 minates at the music concourse. A branch of this walk passes 

 under the carriage road, near the main entrance, and opens directly 

 on to the meadow stretch which forms the northern division of the 

 great green. The w 7 alk passes around this meadow, and crossing 

 the green commands a full view of its whole extent ; then through 

 the woods into a ravine by the side of the brook and by an arched 

 passage under the carriage road to the lawn-like open ground north 

 of the lookout hill; then again through the woods till it meets the 

 line, already described, which leads to the music concourse. 



The second walk that starts from the main entrance passes in a 

 rather more westerly direction. It has the same general tendency 

 as the walks above mentioned, and leads both to the look-out and 

 to the music concourse. 



A walk extends all around the lake and around the green, and a 

 system of walks is introduced to connect the music concourse and 

 the look-out with the refectory ; but it is not necessary to describe 

 all these walks in detail. 



From the principal entrance at the junction of Flatbush and Ninth 

 avenues, from the entrance at the corner of Fifteenth street and 

 Ninth avenue, from the foot entrance at the junction of Sixteenth 

 street and the Coney Island road, and from the entrance from Flat- 

 bush avenue, near the Willink property, it is proposed to have 

 walks, leading to the principal points of interest, that will not be 



