The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

NATURAL SCENERY. For rugged grandeur and ever-changing effects, the views from the mountain summits environing North Adams cannot be surpassed anywhere in the far-famed hills of beautiful Berkshire. From the town and the valleys which reach out from it, there are no distant outlines; the horizon is near, the val- leys are deep and narrow, the mountains rise high and precipitous. The Hoosac valley, to the south, divided into two nearly equal parts by the south branch of the Hoosac river, is walled in on the east by the Hoosac range, stretching away to the north and south as far as the eye can see, from the hills of Readsboro, Vermont, to the graceful slopes of Savoy, and on the west by the nameless foot-hills of the Saddle range (which Dr. Gladden declares de- serve a name and for which h</: suggests Mount Hawkes, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hawkes, the brave soldier, who, on August 20, 1746, held Fort Massachusetts for thirty-six hours against an overwhelming force of French and Indians) and just beyond, the trinity of the Saddle,— Mount Will- iams to the north, Greylock to the south and Mount Fitch midway between them. Separating the foot- hills and Saddle mountain is the Notch, a narrow valley through which rushes the Notch, or, as it is