THE PARC DES BUTTES CHAUMONT. 



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already mentioned, and a skew bridge fifty-six feet in span, 

 made of iron resting on stone piers. 

 ^ The park being surrounded by large roads is enclosed 

 ^ with an open iron railing, so that the view is never ob- 

 ^ structed. Besides this, wherever it has been possible, the 

 ; garden has been so arranged as to be looked down upon 

 from the boulevards above. The boulevard itself is supported 

 i by a wall forming a terrace over one part of the park, upon 

 f which it looks down almost perpendicularly over an escarp- 

 ! ment 120 feet high. The water which supplies the cascades 

 ( and the pipes by which the garden is watered is pumped by 

 f a special engine belonging to the Canal de POurcq into a 

 [ reservoir situated at the side of the upper boulevard which 

 ^ surrounds the park. As for the end of the park nearest to 

 Paris, it is, on the contrary, much higher than the boule- 

 vards. It has therefore been laid out in such a way as not 

 ^ to interfere with the panorama of Paris seen above the tops 

 of the houses which will be built in the intervening 

 thoroughfares. The works, which were commenced early in 

 1864, are now finished. The cost of the bridges, roads, and 

 gardens amounted to something near 120,000/. The archi- 

 , tectural work, including a first-class and two second-class 

 I restaurants, one double and eight single park-keeper's lodges, 

 a rotunda, and the surrounding railing, will amount to 

 nearly 20,000/., making the entire cost close upon 140,000/. 



