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to be particularly applicable to the city of Brooklyn, and which, as we 

 have shown, are considered by those in authority to be unsuitable for 

 development in the city of New York ; it will consequently have no 

 such family resemblance to the New York Boulevards as exists between 

 the two parks, and its attractions will, for a time, at any rate, be of a 

 special and somewhat individual character. 



In pursuing the general question of approaches to the Park, in ac- 

 cordance with your instructions, we have thus been led to the examina- 

 tion of some other scarcely less important topics, and although the con- 

 sideration of such problems as those we have adverted to can only come 

 before your Commission in an indirect and incidental way, we have 

 thought it best to lay the results of our study thus fully before you, 

 because during the investigations and consultations of the past year it 

 has become more and more evident that the early adoption of some 

 such scheme as the " Parkway " would have the effect of adding very 

 greatly to the advantages which your Commission is endeavoring to 

 secure to the citizens of Brooklyn in the construction of the Park. 



Respectfully, 



OLMSTED, VAUX & CO., 



Landscape, Architects and Superintendents. 



Brooklyn, January 1st, 1868. 



