. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . n bound-lead through the city. But its position over- ary of the park, leaving wide slopes of turflookinii the broad Hudson gives it an addetl between the ways. Notwithstanding theseimportance and an individual character which devices to give variety to the plan of the roadare not repeated nor paralleled in any of the proper, one can hardly comprehend how sofamous avenues of the world. From Seventy- long a terrace can escape being unpleasantlysecond street to the hollow known in the old formal; but in this instance the constant changemaps as
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . n bound-lead through the city. But its position over- ary of the park, leaving wide slopes of turflookinii the broad Hudson gives it an addetl between the ways. Notwithstanding theseimportance and an individual character which devices to give variety to the plan of the roadare not repeated nor paralleled in any of the proper, one can hardly comprehend how sofamous avenues of the world. From Seventy- long a terrace can escape being unpleasantlysecond street to the hollow known in the old formal; but in this instance the constant changemaps as Marritje Davids Vly, at what is of level and direction excludes any impres-now One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, sion of sameness, and at times the upwardthe river banks are bold, rising steeply at one sweeping of the parapet curve produces apoint to the height of one hundred and fifty pleasant effect by its harmony with the sky-feet. Down at the ri\er level lies Twelfth line of tree-tops beyond. Even now, before ^M^^X\MJ.^ g^/./J ,11 lMirl*i. KRSIDE DRIVR ,^T NISI TV-SIXTH STREET, LOOKING NORTH. .\venue, while upon the high ground, eighthundred feet inland and parallel with the pier-line, Eleventh Avenue cuts its way squareacross the long series of side streets in accord-ance with the orthodox rectangular blocksystem. Between two avenues, nowapproaching one and now the other, windsRiverside Drive, following mainly the browof the bluff, but rising and falling at easygrades, cur\ing about the bolder j^rojet ti(jns,and everywhere adapting its course so gra-ciously to the contour of the lanrl. that itdoes not look to have been laboriously • laidout, but to have developed rather as a partof the natural order of things. The broadshelf against the sloping bank formed by theassociated ways is supported on the lowerside by a massive retaining wall, at some pointsnearly forty feet in height, and this abovethe drive in a low, heavy [jarapet which ex-tends throughout
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