R E jP O R T 



To the Board of Commissioners : 



Gentlemen : 



We have been instructed to lay before you at tins time 

 such plans, accompanied by information and advice, as would aid 

 you in a final review of tbe boundaries of the park proposed to 

 be formed under your government. The study herewith submitted 

 has been prepared for this purpose, and though not designed to be 

 full or accurate in all details, is intended to be complete in those 

 respects which are essential to an understanding of the advantages 

 to be gained bj such changes of the boundaries as we would recom- 

 mend to be secured, before a plan of construction is definitively 

 settled upon. 



"We proceed to show what these changes are, and why they are 

 considered desirable. 



In selecting a site for a park, it is evidently important that such 

 natural advantages should be secured as are found in well grown 

 words, an agreeable variety of surface and fair prospects both of 

 distant and local scope. It is true, that a site may be deficient in 

 any of these characteristics, and yet, with time enough and money 

 enough, be convertible by well directed labor, into a park of 

 varied and attractive scenery. If, however, such conditions as are 

 most desirable to be added, should have been already provided by 

 nature in the immediate vicinity of a site, it would be felt, on the 

 one hand, to be an extravagance to repeat them by artificial means 

 upon it ; while, on the other, the disadvantage of its being without 

 them would be greater, because more obvious. Moreover, there are 

 two possible misfortunes of a site, which in no period of time, and by 

 no expenditure of labor, can ever be remedied. These are, inadequate 

 dimensions, and an inconvenient shape. 



