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lillies and other aquatic plants, and, on the shores near them, flags, 

 cat-tails, bulrusheB and the like. This arrangement would give op- 

 portunity for every variety of water scenery which is practicable 

 within the space of the park, with any moderate supply of water. 



The natural outlet for the surplus water of the park would be in a 

 southerly direction, and a plan of drainage may be adopted that 

 Mill he more simple and less expensive than would usually be prac- 

 ticable upon a site of this extent, having such a considerable variety 

 of surface. 



DEIVES, HIDES AND WALKS. 



The more important features of scenery and of local accommoda- 

 tions for various purposes, having been thus pointed out, we now 

 turn to the several ways of communication by which they are con- 

 nected ami related one to another. 



The drive, commencing with a width of sixty (CO) feet, at the 

 centre of the north or principal entrance to the park, is carried in 

 a southerly direction for some little distance, but diverges slightly 

 to the east, so as to accommodate itself to some high ground in the 

 neighborhood. It there branches to the southeast and southwest, 

 and becomes a part of the circuit drive, which is proposed to be of 

 an average width of forty (40) feet. The arrangement of the lines 

 and curves, at the junction, is such that carriages coming into the 

 park will continue to proceed for a few hundred feet in a southeast- 

 erly direction, after reaching the circuit drive, and will thus be 

 fairly started on the road that it is intended they should follow, 

 for, although the formation of the ground naturally suggests this 

 treatment of the lines, we should, under any circumstances, have 

 made an effort to arrange the plan in some such way as is indicated 

 in the design, because the southeasterly branch leads more directly 

 into the heart of the park. It commands, moreover, from a point 

 very near the entrance, a view in the direction of the length of what 

 is now an implanted stretch of ground, but which is treated in the 

 design as open lawn or meadow, dotted with trees, it being the inten- 

 tion to reduce the height of a low, narrow ridge that crosses this piece 

 of ground, so that its real extent may be fairly seen from the drive. 



( Continuing on the course already indicated, the road soon curves to 

 the right, and ascends to a point from which it is proposed to obtain 



