The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

5i sometimes called, Cascade brook. Beyond the Sad- dle is the Hopper, a deep well of green, sunk down amid great mountain peaks to the awful depth of a 1,000 feet, Bald mountain, rising 2,579 feet above the sea level, closing it in on the south-east; Simond’s peak, towering above Bald mountain, on the north- west, and the Saddle, with Greylock lifting its head majestically over all, on the east. To the north-west of the Saddle Mount Prospect descends gently to the Williamstown valley. After the south and north branches of the Hoosac have united and worked their way through the nar- row opening between Mount Adams and the north end of the Saddle range, they flow westward as one river through the Williamstown valley, with the wooded sides of Mount Prospect and the ragged, isolated spurs of the Taconics to the south and Mount Adams and East mountain, the beginnings of the Green mountains of Vermont, to the north, while in the west the west range of the Taconics, culminating in the twin peaks of Mount Hopkins, looms up, seemingly an impassable barrier to the onward course of the river. To the north the north branch of the Hoosac rushes down through the Stamford valley between the Hoosacs and the Green mountains. To the north-west is Pine Cobble, the famous rattlesnake