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Excerpt from The Improvement of the Charles River Basin: A Brief Consideration of the Arguments for and Against the Establishment of a Water Park Near the Centre of Metropolitan Boston Some eighteen American cities now make special provi sion for boating and sailing, and fourteen for skating, in their park systems. Boston has done a good deal in the latter way at Jamaica Pond and elsewhere, but has provided nothing so available for 'such a large population as the pro posed park would afford. The eighth ward (bordering on this basin) is the densest in population of any in the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.