3. It is the highest ground in the park, and could, therefore, be better drained. In its present position the building can scarcely be seen from either of those positions. It is above half a mile from Hyde Park Corner: whilst it is three quarters of a mile by footpath, and nearly a mile and a half by carriage drive from Cumberland Gate. The large majority of visitors from the north and the south will enter the park through these two approaches. The average distance, therefore, which each will have to travel in the park, will be nearly three quarters of a mile. Yards. The distance of the nearest end of the present building from Hyde Park Corner is about 940 From Cumberland Gate is, by footpath, about 1560 Ditto, by carriage, about 2490 The distance of the end of the proposed site from Hyde Park Corner, is about 375 Ditto, from Cumberland Gate 375 If we consider how many persons might have entered close to a building thus placed, through Grosvenor and Stanhope Gates, or through any temporary ones near them, it will be perceived that this average distance would in fact be much diminished. Supposing that an equal number of visitors arrive by each approach, we have some means of approximating to one portion of the inconvenience and loss which the public will suffer from its present position. In the first place the number of visitors has been variously estimated from one to seven millions. Let us suppose it to be four millions. Each of these four million visitors will, on an average, have to travel one mile and a quarter more than would have been necessary to go to and return from the Exposition. Thus five millions of miles will be uselessly traversed. If the expense of transport were one penny a-mile, and the value of time on an average four shillings a-day, the account would run thus— 2,000,000 persons travel 1½ mile. 1,000,000 ---------- 6) 3,000,000 miles at six miles per hour. ---------- 10) 500,000 hours. ---------- 4s.=⅕l.) 50,000 days of ten hours each. ------ 10,000l. value of lost time. ------ A similar calculation of the time lost by 2,000,000 persons travelling three miles an hour would give 13,333_l._ The expense of travelling at 1_d._ per mile of the first 2,000,000, who travel in carriages, gives— 12) 3,000,000 miles. --------- 20) 250,000 ------- 12,500l. cost of carr. of two millions 1½ mile each. 10,000l. cost of time of ditto. 13,333l. cost of time of two millions at 1 mile each. ------ 35,833l. total loss. ------