The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

62 grassy meadows of the valleys, to the summit. The goal once reached, the visitor will find at his service everything he can reasonably demand. An iron ob- servatory, forty feet high, affords an unobstructed point-ol-view, the doors of an unpretentious but thoroughly hospitable hotel stand invitingly open and a log stable provides shelter and care for the horses. Mount Greylock, celebrated in the prose and verse of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry D. Thoreau, Washington Gladden, Catherine Sedgwick, Herman Melville and Lanny Kemble, is the highest point of land in Massachusetts. It towers 3,500 feet above the level of the sea and 2,800 feet above the valley of the Hocrac at its base. Its very name is signifi- cant of its altitude. The early settlers saw the clouds and mists settle over and hide it and again they saw the first snows of winter cover it while the tiees in the valley below were still clothed in the gold and brown of their autumn foliage, and so they called it Greylock. The view from the summit of Greylock extends for miles in all directions. “I know of no place,” said Dr. Edward Hitchcock, the geologist, “where the mind is so forcibly impressed by the idea of vastness and even of immensity, as when the eye ranges abroad from this eminence!” Five states