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— as the lime- rock formation of Gregor Rocks in Pow- 

 nal. Large boulders lie in the heart of the brook bed, 

 and the hillsides are clothed with primeval hemlocks. 

 Just above the brow of the Cascade, I found a few 

 Walking Ferns. The ravine is accessible to this point, 

 but here I was forced back and climbed the southern 

 bank to the path leading around to the waterfalls. 

 High boots supplied with hob-nails are indispensable 

 to safety in such climbing in the channels of streams. 



From this point we retraced our steps to the Pent 

 Road, leading up through Snuff Hollow to the City's 

 reservoir, at the junction of the South Adams Road. 

 Here we trudged up the hill and entered the Notch 

 highway at Walden's farmhouse. Grey lock Park 

 Road turns off here through the pastures, around 

 Mount Williams. We, however, continued straight 

 ahead toward the source of The Notch Brook, — Haw- 

 thorne's and Thoreau's routes, long before roads to 

 Greylock were available. It was steady climbing, 

 until at last w^e reached the pasture-land w^here the 

 streams from Greylock 's Brotherhood divide; there is 

 a stream beyond the ridge, flowdng southward to South 

 Adams, while those on the north side flow down Notch 

 Valley to the Hoosac River. Hawthorne often sought 

 the seclusion of this valle}- , and in his American Notes, 

 under date of September 9, 1838, describes these rugged 

 slopes. He not only follow^ed up the North Notch, 

 but descended the South Notch in the rocky course 

 of the stream homeward through South Adams. He 

 speaks of inquiring at a cottage his way to South 



