. 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 /Charles William Eliot. REVERE BEA(The sidewalk, driveway, an rSETiVATION IN 1900 r r lenade on the crown of the beach ^t. 36] AVOIDING BULKHEADS AND SEA-WALLS 671 the adjacent private lands, as well as for the sake of economyin filling-material, it is, on the other hand, desirable to keepthe elevation of the new walks and roadway as low as pos-sible. The usual minimum elevation of streets and sea-wallsadjacent to tidal waters
. 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 /Charles William Eliot. REVERE BEA(The sidewalk, driveway, an rSETiVATION IN 1900 r r lenade on the crown of the beach ^t. 36] AVOIDING BULKHEADS AND SEA-WALLS 671 the adjacent private lands, as well as for the sake of economyin filling-material, it is, on the other hand, desirable to keepthe elevation of the new walks and roadway as low as pos-sible. The usual minimum elevation of streets and sea-wallsadjacent to tidal waters about Boston is grade 16. In thiscase, we can, however, recommend no grade short of 18, andeven then it is probable that the waves during great stormsmay reach the roadway. It is desired, for convenience and economy as well as ap-pearance, to avoid the building of bulkheads or new line of grade 18 must, then, be kept far enoughback from the line of mean high water at grade 10 to permitof waves running up the beach and wasting their strengthbefore reaching the promenade. To secure this result, so faras is possible in the circumstances, the promenade oughtto be kept some 70
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