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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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iddle of October hewas again in Cambridge. He now began to prepare for a yearof travel in Europe, in execution of the purpose he had formedwhen he first entered Mr. Olmsteds office, — largely on hisadvice that for the education of a landscape architect much ^T. 26) OFF FOR EUROPE 49 observation of many kinds of scenery was indispensable.On November 5th he took steamer for Liverpool, and on the14th arrived in England for the third time in his life. Hisown country was in great part rough and wild, and its largeagglomerations of population were but recent; he was goingto see what landscape and scenery had become in regionswhich had been occupied by man for many centuries, andwhat rural delights remained possible for the population ofgreat cities a thousand years old. The placing of a new house on top of a high rock close to the sea, toonear the public road, and surrounded by rough ledges between whichgrow Bay, Sumac, Juniper, Huckleberry, and the like. The shore is boldand surf-beaten.
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Mr. Olmsteds design for the avenues (1883). The approach-roadpasses between two big ledges, and goes under one wing of the house.No proper grade could in any way be obtained short of the distance tothe other side of the house. The turning space on the seaward side ofthe house, and the road which leads out across the head of the littleravine are held by low retaining-walls. (C. E.s note-book.) CHAPTER IV LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. LONDON AND PARIS Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combinationof those images ■which have been pre^dously gathered and deposited inthe memory, — nothing can come from nothing; he who has laid upno materials can produce no combinations. — Sir Joshua Reynolds. Charles went to Europe to study, just as much as if ithad been possible for him to settle down at a university likea student of languages, history, or philosophy; but hisobjects and methods were necessarily very different fromthose of the ordinary student. His first object was

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