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and becomes ;i parr of the circuit drive, which is proposed to be of 

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

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



park will continue to proceed lor a lew hundred feet in a southeast- 

 erly direction, after reaching the circuit drive, and will thug 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 circumstance -, have 

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

 in the design, because 'he southeasterly branch lead.- 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, hut 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. 



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

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

 an extensive view, in a westerly direction, over the great green of the 

 park. From this point, the road descends into the wooded defile 

 where an old wayside inn now stands, marking the ground held by 

 the Continental forces in an engagement during the battle of Long 

 Island, at which point it will lie practicable in perfecting the plan 

 of the park to provide for some architectural memento of that im- 

 portant struggle. 



Passing through the defile, a view is obtained over a pretty glade 

 of turf to the left, intended to be used as a grazing ground for deer, 

 and bounded on the opposite side by the thick coppice-wood which 

 already effectually conceals the Flatbush avenue. Keeping to the 

 right of the deer paddock, the drive continues to pass through the 

 woods, but presently divides into two somewhat narrower branches, 

 by which means full advantage is taken of the already existino- 

 opportunities for shade, and the standing trees are less interfered 

 with than would otherwise be necessary, and then, reuniting, 

 continues to run in a southerly direction, till it approaches the 

 proposed Franklin avenue boundary line. At this point it divides 

 again, and one branch enlarges almost directly into the open space 

 previously described as the music concourse The other branch 

 or main line of drive, after passing the two entrances to the con- 

 course, is carried round the head of the lake, and along the shore 



