Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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y (jarapet which ex-tends throughout its entire length, fitly crown- its trees are grown or its retaining wallmantled with vines, the road itself, as its graystretches disappear behind some hill andbeckon the visitor onward, delights the eyeand kindles the imagination. AVest of the wall is a strip of land varymgin width as the avenue approaches or recedesfrom the river. It is generally lower than thedrive, and falls away to the water with arapid inclination. In one of its wider portions,however, near Eighty-second street, the gran-ite basement of the island rises in a pair ofabrupt hillocks above the road level, burstingthrough its thin covering of turf here andthere, and nursing in its crevices two orthree stunted and picturescjue honey-locusts,(ilimjjses of the river and the Jersey shorebeyond, caught between these hills, furnishjjictures worth remembering even among themany glorious jtrosjiects from the drive. Thisstrijjof land is too narnnv to affcjrd any park- RIVERSIDE PARK. 915
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RIVERSIDE DRIVE NEAR CLAREMONT, LOOKING SOUTH. like range; and while nothing has been done toadapt it to the purposes of a pleasure-ground,it has unfortunately been hideously scarifiedto furnish fiUing for the railroad and otherimprovements. Descending from the driveby stone steps to some points where it is ac-cessible, as at One Hundred and Sixth street,we find an open wood of fine trees with grassyintervals extending for a long distance as asort of intermediate terrace, which drops sud-denly to the river level in a steep bank cov-ered with a wild tangle of trees, shrubs, andvines. Some of the trees have a size anddignity of expression which invest them withan individual interest. The white pines atthe northern end of the park, the chestnutoaks in some of the upper groves, the tulip-trees and sycamores at Ninety-sixth street, allwear that venerable look which trees rarelyattain in the first century of their history. Itis a matter of record, however, that (leneralRobertson stripped th

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