The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

56 A little to the west of the bridge is a cave, large enough to be entered, but hardly offering sufficient reward for the trouble of the undertaking. Near by is a marble quarry, from which great pieces of stone are blasted to be ground up into white dust by the powerful machinery of the mill at its base. It is necessary to warn the visitor to be very cau- tious while in the vicinity of the bridge and to run no risk in climbing about and over it. Several frightful deaths have occurred here by falling into the chasm. CASCADE. I he Cascade is about a mile and a half from The Wilson and can be readily reached by following the highway to Williamstown to the Notch road, a road meeting the highway a few rods this side of the bridge which crosses the Hoosac at Braytonville. The Notch road passes a little district school house and the ruins of an old saw-mill. From the saw- mill a path, following the Notch brook through fields and into a pretty little glen, leads to the Cascade. Between The Wilson and the Notch road several objects of possible interest to the stranger are passed. Just west of Phoenix bridge, to the left, is Furnace street, leading to the mouth of the “little