This structure will be composed of exquisitely wrought light brown freestone, and granite.

Such is a general idea of tlie park, the construction of which was begun at the beginning of 1858; it is expected to be completed in 1864-- a period of only about six years. The entire cost will not fall much short of 12,000,000 dollars. As n;any as four thousand men and several hundred horses have been at work upon it at one time.f

From the Central Park -- ■s\-hcre beauty and symmetry in the hands of Nature and Art already performed noble aesthetic service for the citizens of New York -- let us ride to "Jones's Woods," on the eastern boi'ders of the island, where, until recently, the silence of the country forest might have been enjoyed almost within sound of the hum of the busy town.

* The New York Spirit nf the Times, refeiTing to this lake, said:-- "From the commencement of skaling to the 24th day of February (1861) was sixty-tliree days; there was skating on forty-flve days, and no skating on eighteen daj-s. Of visitors to the pond, the least number on any one day was one hundred; the largest number on one day (Christmas) estimated at 100,000; aggregate niunber during the season, .540,000 ; average number on skating days, 12,000."

t This brief description was written, and the accompanying sketches were made, in 1861. Tlie great work of fashioning this Park, leaving Nature, in the growth of trees and shrubbery, to enrich and beautify it, is now (1866) nearly completed.