The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

64 Hemy W. Shaw, “Josh Billings;” Pittsfield and the beautiful hills of southern Berkshire. And to the west the sei rated peaks of the Catskills stand out clear-cut against the sky. The Hoosac river can be followed from its sources, the south branch, rising on the hill-sides below Cheshire, flows gently along through the meadows and villages of the Hoosac valley; the north branch, starting from a mountain pond in Stamford, rushes clown the Stamford valley, and uniting, they trip contentedly along together on their way to the Hudson. WILLIAMSTOWN, WILLIAMS COLLEGE AND FC KT MASSACHUSETTS. rhe road to Williamstown passes through the Williamstown valley and the little factory settle- ments of Braytonville, Greylock and Blackinton, and can readily be followed to the college town without more explicit direction. Just beyond the railroad crossing at Braytonville is a large meadow and in the meadow, some twenty or thirty rods from the railroad, a stately elm is growing, planted there in 1857 by students of Wil- liams college to mark the site of old Fort Massa- chusetts. The fort was built in 1745 as part of the line of defence erected to protect the northern and