Photograph by Edwin H. Lincoln 



the; vaeeey of the housatonic, with greylock in the distance : pittseield, 



massachusetts 



This valley has contributed the marbles out of which some of America's most noted 

 structures have been built. The Nation's Capitol, at Washington, and the City Hall, at Phila- 

 delphia, share with St. Patrick's Cathedral, at New York, the common origin of their mar- 

 bles. Old Greylock, "cloud girdled on his golden throne," is the highest mountain in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



being the power of the eye to penetrate 

 the distance. Northward, one looks into 

 Canada ; eastward, into Maine ; south- 

 ward, across New England ; westward, 

 into New York. 



It was Henry Ward Beecher who said 

 of the autumnal foliage of the Berkshire 

 Hills : "Have the evening clouds, suffused 

 with sunset, dropped down to become 

 fixed into solid forms ? Have the rain- 

 bows that followed autumn storms faded 

 into the mountains, and left their mantles 

 there? What a mighty chorus of colors 

 do the trees roll down the valleys, up the 

 hillsides, and over the mountains !" 



These hills constitute one of the fore- 

 most playgrounds of the eastern United 

 States. Their roads are as ?ood as the 



Appian Way ever was in the palmiest 

 days of the Roman Empire. 



And he who journeys southward from 

 them conies down the verdant valley of 

 the Connecticut, the central portion of 

 that charming little State of which De 

 Tocqueville on his visit proposed his re- 

 markable toast : "And now for my grand 

 sentiment : Connect-de-coot, ze leetle yel- 

 low spot zat make ze clock-peddler, ze 

 school-master and ze Senator ; ze first 

 give you time, ze second tell you what 

 to do wiz him, and ze third make your 

 laws and civilization." 



New Haven and Cambridge are two 

 spots that must ever be hallowed in 

 American history, for who can estimate 

 the nation's debt to the two old uni- 



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