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astors are lingering along its banks, its attractions are continually 

 inviting the lover of Nature to seek its charmed retreats. 



Near its outflow, into the meadow below, are some fine old 

 willows, and not far from there is Marm Berts' Pond, Pasture 

 Hill, and the noble grove of evergreens known as Hall's wood. 



Between Hall's woods and the brook, is a fine old orchard, and 

 the "Bower" where may still be seen the remains of the old earth 

 dam and sluice way where years ago, the old mill stood. 



A little further up the ravine, where the brook divides into two 

 branches, is an interesting swamp and a confused mass of large 

 boulders. 



Still further up, we come to a basin-like depression where the 

 views in either direction are especially charming. 



From this point, as we follow the footpath along the top of the 

 bank in a northerly direction, we come to the finest specimen of 

 an oak tree in the Fells. 



Brook's history of Medford mentions an oak near the Bower 

 which was noticeable on account of its great size, but I have 

 never been able to locate it satisfactorily, and my good friend 

 Mr. Hervey thinks that it was cut down thirty or more years 

 ago. It is to be hoped that this one will escape a like fate. I 

 imagine it was some magnificent tree as this that inspired Elizur 

 Wright's admirable little brochure, "The voice of a Tree." 



A short distance from the great oak tree, another woodpath 

 curves along the edge of the brook to the "Forks," where we 

 find a party testing the truth of some of the smelt stories, which 

 they have heard, and in the woods on the hillside to the right is 

 a queer rock which from certain points of view resembles a huge 

 frog perched on its haunches. 



Some of the other special features of this section, are the Silver 

 Mine, near which there is a spring of delicious water, Mt. Lincoln 

 and the "Fire Place." 



The latter is situated in a rocky pass to the northwest, between 

 Brooks Lane and Forest street and is one of the most interesting 

 features of this section of the Fells. 



From this pass we make our way, regardless of path, through 

 woodland and swamp, until we reach the ravine, which leads us 

 round to the great ledges that reach out from Pine Hill range, 

 and then into the Pine Hill woodlands, we go by way of Quarry 

 Path, which passes between two long lines of prominent ledges 

 in the direction of Pine Hill. 



