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trees, or a turn in the road must reveal to us unexpectedly 

 some new scene. Water in ponds, cascades and fountains 

 is a delightful, almost an essential feature in such a park. 

 The Albany Rural Cemetery is a model piece of ground for 

 its adaptation to purposes of pleasure. The deep gorges, 

 the steep hillsides, the streams of water, the level plateaus, 

 are precisely the features in a piece of ground which would 

 adapt it for a park. 



The practical question comes to us now ; is such a park 

 attainable for Albany? Is there any spot which will meet 

 all these requisites? A spot nearly enough central to the 

 city, and accessible, large enough for the wants of the 

 city — present and prospective — and which, from its diver- 

 sity of surface and general outline, is capable of being 

 transformed into a park. 



Without wishing to disparage any other locality, or to 

 set up any claim to the discovery of the only spot suitable 

 for this purpose, I desire to submit one, as possessing all 

 requisite qualifications to such a degree as to make it wor- 

 thy of attentive consideration. 



The annexed map will give a clear idea of the ground 

 which is proposed to be covered by this park. The bound- 

 ary line commences at the intersection of Elk street and 

 Swan, at the head of the high bank in the rear of the 

 residences of Messrs. Steele and King. Thence it follows 

 the line of Elk street, and would absorb this street. At 

 Lark street, it passes southward and takes in Sand street, 

 running westward along Sand to Robin street. At Clinton 

 avenue, it returns eastward to Judson street, along which 

 it runs to the bounds of the corporation, and in the same 

 line into the town of Watervliet, until it reaches a point 

 whence a line running parallel with Lumber street would 

 just touch the grounds of the Dudley Observatory. It runs 

 east on this line till it reaches Swan, and along Swan to 

 Colonie, along Colonie to Knox, along Knox to Third, down 

 Third to Lark, along Lark to First, down First to the line 



