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wards, in the form of spoons, or tumblers, or cream-pots, brought out ; 

 in remarking the honest and laudable pride with which they were ex- 

 hibited ; and in tiie agreeable reflection that they would go down as 

 valuable heir-looms to other generations and stimulate their generous 

 ambition. Agriculture in all its moral aspects recommends itself to 

 the regard of every good mind. Emulation in this business awakens 

 none of the bad passions, which are so often engendered by rivalry 

 in other departments of life. One man's success in agriculture never 

 injures his neighbor ; but always tends to the general benefit. There 

 is in agriculture no monopoly of improvements and advantages ; and 

 every effort, discovery, experiment, or invention by which the im- 

 provement of the art is assisted, its respectability advanced, and its 

 productiveness increased, is a direct, substantial, and permanent ben- 

 efaction to a town, to the country, and to the world. 



XIV. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 



Mount Washington at the south-western extremity of the county 

 and of the state, seen in almost any aspect, is a noble elevation ; and 

 as you first come in view of it on the road from Stockbridge to Great 

 Barrington, presents an object of peculiar beauty and grandeur. The 

 ascent of this mountain either from Guelder Hollow on the north-east, 

 or the beautiful valley of Kopeck on the west, is long but not diffi- 

 cult ; and after having ascended about two miles you reach an ex- 

 tended area of rolling country surrounded on three sides by a line of 

 different summits, which appear from several points of view below as 

 forming only a single prominence. The whole mountain is compre- 

 hended in the township of Mount Washington ; and in this area there 

 are some valuable farms, mainly devoted to the grazing of cattle and 

 the sheep husbandry. 



1. Manufacture of Charcoal. The growth on Mount 

 Washington is principally chesnut and white birch with some maple 

 and oak. A great business of the inhabitants on the mountain, and of 

 many persons in the neighborhood, is the conversion of this wood 



