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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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to the hotel on Binner-Alster. In the streets were women and dogs harnessed incarts, and other queer things. Sad to say, rain and smut asever. In the afternoon of the same day the weather cleared, andCharles walked out countrywards along the inner and outerAlsters. Water parks such as Boston should have made of theBack Bay. I got out into a villa region — Longwood-like —whence a view of the high city spires across long green-edgedwater alive with boats, small steamers, and fleets of swans.When sunset came and the lighting of lamps, I returned bysteamer under the fine Lombards Bridge, across the innerbasin to the quay in the heart of the town. There I took anice in a water pavilion. Hamburg is a delightful town! ^T. 26) HAMBURG —ALSTER BASINS 165 These water parks interested Charles greatly. He inspectedrepeatedly their shores, the landing-stages, and the planta-tions ; and, as usual, took great delight in the intelligent pro-vision for public enjoyment upon the water. I followed
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_^ ^^^\ % A water-side arrangement — Hamburg. the good public gardens which run all round the lines of theold walls to the Botanic Garden and the Zoological Garden,both of which are interesting and instructive. He walkedthrough the river-side of the town, observing the old canalsand the high gabled buildings; and thence to the steamer-landing just below the mooring-ground of the crowded ships.Here he took a steamer down the Elbe seven or eight milesto Blankenese landing. The banks are rather high, and wooded and villaed all along,the houses looking westward over the river and the low salt-creeked country beyond. The river is full of small shipping,with quaint rigs and colored sails. Blankenese is very odd,having steep, crooked, paved footways, — a bigger and Ger-manified Clovelly. Close by is a large park. I entered andrambled in it long. It is a very fine piece of landscape work.Thence I turned towards town, along the high road. Manypeople were out pleasure-driving; the whole roa

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