What to see in America . Brooklyn Bridge New York Citv 77. Soldiers and Sailors Arch, Brooklyn the city is Bronx Park. At the north end are the Botanical Gardens, and at the south end are 260 acres where various of the larger North American quad-rupeds have been placed in surroundings that resemble their natural haunts. The bison, for instance, have a range of fifteen acres, and the deer eight acres. Another feature of the Zoo is a granite bowlder weighing thirty tons, so balanced that it can be moved easily by the East River,north of BlackwellsIsland, is Hell Gate,where the waterwayma

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What to see in America . Brooklyn Bridge New York Citv 77. Soldiers and Sailors Arch, Brooklyn the city is Bronx Park. At the north end are the Botanical Gardens, and at the south end are 260 acres where various of the larger North American quad-rupeds have been placed in surroundings that resemble their natural haunts. The bison, for instance, have a range of fifteen acres, and the deer eight acres. Another feature of the Zoo is a granite bowlder weighing thirty tons, so balanced that it can be moved easily by the East River,north of BlackwellsIsland, is Hell Gate,where the waterwaymakes a sharp bendand surges through anarrow rocky reefs made ithighly dangerous untilthe}^ were blasted the several bridgesacross the East Riverthe first has never beenexcelled in interest andgrace. It was begun in1870 and completed in1883 at a cost of nearly$15,000,000. For a long

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