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leafy - покритий листям
knoll - пагорб
lavish - щедрий
sun-tan - засмага
blossoming - що розцвітає
intermission - антракт
tuition - плата за навчання
fire engine - пожежна машина
carriage - екіпаж
world-renowed - відомий усьому світові
invertebrate - безхребетна тварина
adjoining - прилеглий
dome - купол
armour - зброя
tapestry - гобелен
jampack - заповнювати до відказу
Medieval - середньовічний
Guggenheim Museum - музей абстракціоністського мистецтва
Jumel Mansion - музей американської революції, де у 1776 році
розташовувався штаб Вашінгтона
Dyckman House - єдиний голландський фермерський будинок,
який зберігся до цього часу у Манхаттані
Uptown Manhattan is distinguished by its own unique
identity and disturbing beauty.
NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK is in nowise taken away
from nature, but is rendered back to her, when all has been
done to beautify it. An American woodland, breaking into
meadows here and there and brightened with pools and ponds
lurking among rude masses of rock, and gleaming between leafy knolls
and grassy levels, is very picturesque.
Central Park extends from 59th to 110th Streets, between Fifth
Avenue and Central Park West. The 850-acre tract combines beautifully-
landscaped areas with a remarkable variety of recreation facilities.
Among its features are the Central Park Zoo, Children's Zoo, two
skating rinks, model yacht pond, carousel, two rowing lakes.
Central Park, beautiful and forbidding at other times of the year,
in summer becomes Ceres, lavish with simple pleasures. The
storytellers come out, the roller skaters, the picnickers, and the sun-
tanners. The park becomes intensely busy with soccer practice and