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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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iET. 36) CHARLES RIVER RESERVATION 535 sequence, beginning with the tract next above the Brooklinegas works, and continuing upstream, along both banks, as faras the appropriation might allow. The inland boundary of the lands which have since been taken is generally intended, as in the other reservations,to ultimately become the sidewalk line of a boundary street.Of the varying space between the north and south boundaryroads, about half is salt water and flats, and the other halfsalt marsh; the former being easily convertible into freshwater of a permanent level, and the latter into fresh greenmeadow, by the building of a dam which shall exclude thetides. That it is clearly desirable to shut out the high tidesis shown by the two contrasting pictures printed herewith.That it is even more advisable to hold the river water at afairly constant elevation is shown by the second pair of pic-tures. The marshy plains can be saved from flooding, themarshy river-banks can be made usable and beaut

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