. 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. iveway wasreached by the 4 Cascade Ravine, a ravine unexcelled innatural attractions in any park the writer has ever solution of the lake-side problem led to the solution ofthe other problem. In the summer of 1891, a topographicalsurvey and contour map were made of the entire park area;and with this map in his hands Mr. Eliot was asked to indi-cate the best way to carry a driveway to the amp
. 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. iveway wasreached by the 4 Cascade Ravine, a ravine unexcelled innatural attractions in any park the writer has ever solution of the lake-side problem led to the solution ofthe other problem. In the summer of 1891, a topographicalsurvey and contour map were made of the entire park area;and with this map in his hands Mr. Eliot was asked to indi-cate the best way to carry a driveway to the next day Mr. Eliot came to me with the result of hisstudy. He proposed to continue his lake-shore drive fromthe point where it reached Cascade Ravine up the main valleyuntil farther progress in that direction was cut off by a was now on the side of the stream opposite the amphi-theatre and some distance above. Here he crossed the mainstream with a bridge, returned on the opposite bank of thatstream to the foot of the hill near the amphitheatre, andpassed along the foot of this hill to the site of the proposedpavilion. A drive was also planned from the bridge just. ^t. 32] NAHANT 301 mentioned, after crossing the stream, up the main valley andconnecting with the principal drive on that side. A newdrive through the valley was thus devised, in addition to thoseon the bluffs. These drives are now all constructed; and those who tra-verse them do not know to whom they are indebted for thepleasure the drives afford. The fact is that Charles Eliot isentitled to the credit above given. A letter which Charles sent a year later to the YoungstownPark Commissioners after one of his visits to the Gorgecloses thus : Your Gorge is one of the finest park scenes ofAmerica, and deserves most careful handling; and all whowork in or for it have my very best wishes. A SEASIDE VILLAGE. 1 March, 1893. To the Chairman of the Selectmen, and the Town Forester,Nahant. Gentlemen, —
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