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properly be placed under the control of a special corporation for this 

 purpose, we refrain at this time from suggesting in what manner it 

 should be laid ont. This subject will be recurred to. 



GRAZING GROUND FOR DEER. 



The narrow sheltered strip of meadow, on the opposite side of 

 the park, we propose to enclose with a sufficient iron paling and 

 make use of as a pasture ground for deer, antelopes, gazelles, and 

 such other grazing animals as can be satisfactorily herded together 

 in summer upon it. 



WATER WORKS AND DRAINAGE. 



In regard to the water needed for the lake, we are informed that 

 sufficient may be spared from the general supply already brought 

 to the city by the Nassau Water Works. We recommend, however, 

 that arrangements be had in view, not only for securing an inde- 

 pendent supply, but also for keeping up a constant circulation, by 

 pumping the water from the lake to the spring on the west side of 

 the Friend's Hill, so that it may always be flowing from that point 

 in a natural stream. The pump for this purpose would be worked 

 by steam, in connection with the kitchen of the refectory. The 

 stream furnished by the spring is intended to take first the charac- 

 ter of a series of pools, overhung on the one side by the trees upon 

 the north side of the Friend's Hill, and margined on the other by 

 banks of turf. It would then assume more of the usual character 

 of a small mountain stream, taking a very irregular course, with 

 numerous small rapids, shoots and eddies, among rocks and ferns, 

 until it emerged from the shadow of the wood upon a grassy 

 slope ; thence it would flow more quietly until, after falling over 

 a body of rock, in connection with a foot bridge on the side of the 

 park opposite that on which it started, it would assume the appear- 

 ance of a small river with high and shaded banks and at length, 

 passing the refectory and music concourse in two reaches, empty 

 into the eastern bay of the lake. Here, on the north shore would 

 be a low flat meadow with a few large trees and small thickets of 

 bushes overhanging the water. In the coves would be beds of pond 



