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 . n. On the Cambridge side of the river, between the Cam-bridge Hospital and Boylston Street, the construction of theNorth Charlesbank Road, as it may perhaps be called, is al-ready begun. The natural river-bank was here a salt marsh,subject to occasional flooding by the tide, as illustrated in theuppermost of the typical cross-sections in the drawing on Not knowing whether the river will eventually haveto be sea-walled,
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 . n. On the Cambridge side of the river, between the Cam-bridge Hospital and Boylston Street, the construction of theNorth Charlesbank Road, as it may perhaps be called, is al-ready begun. The natural river-bank was here a salt marsh,subject to occasional flooding by the tide, as illustrated in theuppermost of the typical cross-sections in the drawing on Not knowing whether the river will eventually haveto be sea-walled, as in the second section, or whether, follow-ing the building of a dam, it may be green-banked, as in thethird section, the Cambridge Park Commission has adoptedthe temporary mode of grading the bank, illustrated in thefourth cross-section. When it is remembered that there are,above Cottage Farm, some ten miles of salt-marsh river-bankwhich must sooner or later be made usable, the obviouseconomy, as well as the greater usefulness and beauty, to besecured by the scheme which substitutes a short crosswisewall or dam near the rivers mouth for ten miles of wall lead-. THE LOCATION OF CHARLESMOUTH BRIDGEAnd the desig^n for the head of Charles River Basin ^T. 37] A CHARLESMOUTH BRIDGE 685 ing upstream and back again cannot be questioned or dis-guised. Watertown, and part of Newton, with Brighton,and especially Cambridge, are now positively suffering for adecision of the question of dam or no dam. If there is to beno dam, the river ought to be dredged ; if there is to be adam, much of the dredging may be safely omitted; and soon. It is to be regretted that the Joint Commission whichoriginally proposed the dam went out of existence with thefiling of its report. A project, no matter how worthy, whichrequires the cooperation of four municipalities, three parkcommissions, the State, and the United States, cannot beexpected to accomplish itself. Meanwhile, and whether Charles River is to b
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