. 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. ies, or bodies of subscribers might do for the Com-monwealth through the Trustees : — In Massachusetts the variety of these choicest local scenesis very great. One is the curving beach of a tiny cove of thesea, enclosed by granite headlands. Another is itself a head-land, or a rugged bit of the ocean bluff of Cape Cod. An-other a lily-pond set in an amphitheatre of woods. Anothera wild ravine, or a quiet grove, or a hill-top,
. 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. ies, or bodies of subscribers might do for the Com-monwealth through the Trustees : — In Massachusetts the variety of these choicest local scenesis very great. One is the curving beach of a tiny cove of thesea, enclosed by granite headlands. Another is itself a head-land, or a rugged bit of the ocean bluff of Cape Cod. An-other a lily-pond set in an amphitheatre of woods. Anothera wild ravine, or a quiet grove, or a hill-top, or a strip ofland between a highway and a lake. It often happens that apublic road follows a stream, or the shore of a pond. Thepleasantness and beauty of the way consist in the appear-ance and disappearance of the water amid the foliage. Howeasily is this pleasantness destroyed, — how easily and howcheaply it might be permanently preserved! Those stripsand bodies of land which ought to be thus held in trust forthe enjoyment of all are seldom of much value to their own-ers. They are too steep or too rocky for agriculture, too in-accessible for f\^^jkX*o<y^. SB Eliot, Charles William470 Charles Archi-tecture PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY
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