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Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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driveway wasreached by the Cascade Ravine, a ravine unexcelled innatural attractions in any park the writer has ever visited.This 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 amphitheatre.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 cliff.He 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
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^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 YoimgstownPark 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^ — As requested by you, I submit the followingbrief notes on your township as it appears to a professionaldesigner of the arrangement of land for human purposes. Nahant is a rock-bound and sea-gi

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