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suburbs. It may nevertheless be made to form a strik- 

 ing feature in the general design of improvement. Its 

 peculiar location is such that it opens a view through 

 Brooklyn, of a portion of the harbor — and in the other 

 direction, through Matbush, of the ocean. By planting 

 a double row of trees on each side, it will form a fine 

 promenade, while the trees will soon hide from view 

 the disagreeable accompaniments of ;i traffic road. If 

 the cobble-stone pavement with which it is now paved 

 could be exchanged for a smoother material, it would 

 have the effect to diminish the noise, which, from the 

 character of the travel over it, would be inseparable 

 from the use of this kind of pavement. 



felosur*. 



The necessity of preserving from mutilation the fine 

 growth of trees now existing, and of affording an oppor- 

 tunity for developing the strength of the soil, requires 

 that the park should at once be enclosed with a substan- 

 tial fence of some kind. There are a large quantity of 

 boulders which might be prepared for a stone wall; but 

 the time that would be required to remove them from 

 their beds in the earth, and the expense attending their 

 removal to the exterior line, would be such as to render 

 such an application of them objectionable. I think, 

 therefore, that a strong picket fence, well secured by 

 battens, would be the best under the circumstances. 

 This would have the further advantage, that at any 

 point where the progress of the work required it, a por- 

 tion could be temporarily removed and readily replaced-: 

 Such a fence would be the most economical, and if sub- 



