PARKS, BOULEVARDS, AND CEMETERIES. Brook lyn has a large number of parks and parkways throughout its extended area. In the older closely built section the largest, Washington or Fort Oreene Park, is in the Hill district, on the site of the Revolutionary earthworks known as Fort Greene. This park contains only about 30 acres, but has been called the most beautiful small park in the 'United States. The crest of the hill affords a magnificent view of the first city and one of the finest harbors in America, the navy-yard, and other points of interest. From this point the ground slopes in grassy terraces, beneath which are the remains of the American Revolutionary prisoners who died on the prison ship Jersey. South from the older sections, but near the present geographical centre of the bor ough. is Prospect Park. the largest of the Brook lyn parks. which takes rank with Fairmount, Central, and Druid Hill parks among early exam ples of municipal enterprise in this field. Pros pect Park is not so large as those of some cities, but its 316 acres contain many natural beauties in its lake, fine old trees, wooded hills, and broad meadows; while its drives, ponds. playgrounds. gardens, and other embellishments have been laid out with taste and care. The lake, of 61 acres, is attractive for boating in summer and for skating in winter: and Lookout Hill. 185 feet above the sea, commands an extensive view of New York Harbor and Long Island. The principal entrance is at Flatbush Avenue, and the circular plaza in front is adorned by a large fountain and the im posing memorial arch in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War. surmounted by a
large quadriga by FrederickMacmonnies. Within the park. near the entrance, is a statue, also by Maemonnies, of J. S. T. Stranahan. the creator of the Brooklyn park and boulevard system. At oth er points are statues of Lincoln. J.Howard Payne, Thomas Moore. and Washington Irving. A tablet in Battle Pass commemorates the battle of Long Island, and a monument on the slope of Lookout Hill, the memory of the 400 Maryland troops who fell in that battle, a great part of which was fought within the park limits. From the Plaza east runs a boulevard 200 feet wide, called East ern Parkway. Near the southern entrance begins the Ocean Parkway. a magnificent speedway with separate paths for bicycles and horses, leading to Coney Island, miles distant. Forest Park, in the northeastern part of the borough. contains 535 acres and is noted for its superb views and fine trees; there are also, in various other sections, smaller pre-erves, of which Tompkins. Winthrop, and Bedford parks are prominent examples.
West of Prospect Park, on a high ridge over looking time bay, is greenwood Cemetery. of 475 acres, the principal burying-ground in Brooklyn and the most beautiful in the country. rich in handsome monuments and mausoleums, many of them erected in honor of persons of world-wide fame. The Cemetery of the Evergreens and Cypress Hills Cemetery, also, are worthy of mention.