Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . otels, restaurants, shops,apartment houses, and private dwellings (though we hope itmay be possible to impose some restrictions) ; and since largenumbers of people will often want to resort to these build-ings, a broad sidewalk seems necessary. It is, in many respects, inconvenient to insert a carriageroad between this sidewalk and the beach promenade. If thewhole available space were to be devoted to the use of personson foot
Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . otels, restaurants, shops,apartment houses, and private dwellings (though we hope itmay be possible to impose some restrictions) ; and since largenumbers of people will often want to resort to these build-ings, a broad sidewalk seems necessary. It is, in many respects, inconvenient to insert a carriageroad between this sidewalk and the beach promenade. If thewhole available space were to be devoted to the use of personson foot, it would not be more than sufficient to accommodatesuch crowds as may be expected in the future. On the otherhand, we believe a carriage road will not work any very greatinconvenience for some years to come, and we have, accord-ingly, placed a driveway on the submitted plan. It appears from the topographical survey that the elevationof the top of the beach varies from grade 15 to grade 20, theelevation of mean high water being grade 10. Extreme highwater rises to grade 14, and in this exposed situation someallowance must be made for great waves. For the sake of. < = -?:. kV
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