. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. 248 NEW BOSTON and their margins devoted to fullerrecreative use. Earth causeways of thiskind, if used as peninsulas to shorten theactual water space to be spanned, wouldplace the bridges in midstream and pro-duce a series of Binnen Alster basins ofgreat size, while if these causeways wereplaced in mid-stream like islands, andconnected with the Boston and Cam-bridge shores by short bridges, an effectwould be produced like that to be seen inthe rivers which contain the I
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. 248 NEW BOSTON and their margins devoted to fullerrecreative use. Earth causeways of thiskind, if used as peninsulas to shorten theactual water space to be spanned, wouldplace the bridges in midstream and pro-duce a series of Binnen Alster basins ofgreat size, while if these causeways wereplaced in mid-stream like islands, andconnected with the Boston and Cam-bridge shores by short bridges, an effectwould be produced like that to be seen inthe rivers which contain the Isle de laCite, Paris, the Island of Rousseau, Ge-neva, or the Kohlen-Inseln of Munich,but upon a larger scale. If these mid-stream islands were connected with oneanother to form a single island of greaterlength, its recreative service would be im-mensely increased, and the appearance ofthe basin would be controlled largely byit, rather than by the bridge structuresand their a])proaches. This disposition ofthe earthworks would leave the presentmargins of the basin uninterrupted andwould not interfere with convenientalong
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