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extended view of the city and country park, its lay 
out and general composition, both of plain, road- 
way, upland and foliage contour. From the “Over- 
look” rustic building, a good view of the play 
stand is secured, with its thirty acres of delightful 
greensward, playing ground for children. Leaving 
this healthful locality, we cross the “Old Trail 
Road” or Indian foot path used by our Pilgrim 
fathers in their communications between Plymouth 
and Boston. 
By the Valley Gate we enter the Country Park 
which is not used at night and is distinct from the 
City Park which is illuminated with electricity. Of 
course the rural aspect of the country park also 
marks its special use for it is, aside from the “slick 
roads,” very simple and natural in its undulating 
formations 
At various intervals one encounters specially 
beautiful spots, such as the bridle paths which 
intercept the road here and there, the road at the 
entrance of “Rocky Wilderness”, the Ladies 
Tennis Courts with mysterious by paths and walks 
and sylvan vistas. 
P'rom Scarborough Hill, the highest point, (150 
feet above the sea level) of observation, one views 
a marvellously beautiful stretch of country. On 
the left is Dorchester with its steeples rising above 
the tree tops, in front nearly a dozen miles away 
stretches the long range of Blue Hills of Milton, ten 
miles or more in length, now a part of the park 
reservat'on, while the intervals are filled with 
pasture grounds, rich green foliage, and the towns, 
Milton, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Ashmont and 
Quincy. 
The Arnold Arboretum, with its daisy field on 
the slope of Weld Hill, the ancient hemlock woods 
SYLVAN "OVERLOOK.” WILDERNESS, FRANKLIN PARK. 
LOOKING TOWARDS “OVERLOOK” IN WILDERNESS. 
that rise abruptly on its border; Bussey woods 
SO dense and glorious in the soft hazy shimmer of 
the summer light, these are a few of the distant 
landscape views that enchant the eye and sooth the 
mind.. 
A nearer view discloses the principal features of 
the park; Schoolmaster Hill with its grottos, vines 
and pavilions; the grassy field, where three hund- 
red Southdown sheep, guarded by a shepherd and 
dogs, nibble the freshening blade, form interesting 
spots on the velvet lawn as they move in bodies or 
scamper away in frolicsome mood. 
From the “Outlook” another lovely view is 
obtained, not only in the way of perspectives but 
in foreground as well. Here one looks down a 
rude-step terraced slope, partly o’erhung with 
foliage and deep wooded on either side. Color, 
light, shade, flecks of golden sunrays, the gray old 
rocks, the gay wild flowers that deck the saucy 
bush, and the creeping vine, which, like an apron, 
covers the sober earth, all dance and smile and 
give you welcome, or as Emerson says they “polite- 
ly greet you with a How-de-do?’ So one might 
dwell upon the beauties of this five hundred acres 
of upland public reservation ground upon which 
nearly $4,000,000 have been spent. One feels 
each special spot more beautiful than the imagina- 
tion could picture, and coupled with the historic 
features of the whole the mind is filled with love, 
reverence and inspiration. When one thinks that 
it was here that America’s first philosopher, Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, lived, sought and wooed the 
Universal Spirit; that for over two and a half cent- 
uries the founders and descendants of American 
civilization have enjoyed these rural glories; that 
Gleason, the publisher, strove to make his pictorial 
efforts unequalled, it is not to be wondered at that 
this park should be celebrated. 
By the practical completion of the Parkway, the 
