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tiicre is ^ small island of six or seven acres, "which 

 was formerly loaded with valuable pine timber and 

 other forest wood. When the meadow is overflow- 

 ed, by means of an artificial dam, this island riKes 

 with the water, to a height sometimes of 6 feet. Near 

 the middle of this island is a small pond, which has 

 been gradually lessening ever since it was known, 

 i^nd is now almost covered with verdure. In this 

 place a pole 50 feet long has disappeared, without 

 finding bottom. In the water of that pond there 

 have been fish in plenty, which, when the meadow 

 has been overflowed, have appeared there, and when 

 the water has been drawn oiF, have been left on the 

 xneadow, at which time the island settles to its usual 

 place. 



In the north part of th€ township of Adams, in 

 Berkshire county Massachusetts, not half a mile 

 from Stampford in Vermont, is a natural curiosity 

 -which merits a description. A pretty mill stream, 

 called Hudson's brook, which rises in Vermont, and 

 falls into the north branch of Hoosuck river, has for 

 SO or 40 rods, formed a very deep channel through 

 a quarry of white marble. The hill gradually de- 

 scending towards the south, terminates in a steep 

 precipice, down which, probably, the water once 

 tumbled. But finding in some places natural chasms 

 in the rocks, and in others wearing them avvay; as 

 js evident from their appearance, it has formed a 

 channel, which in some places is more than 60 feet 

 ileep. Over this channel, where deepest, some of 

 the rocks remain, and form a natural bridge. From 

 the top of this bridge to the water it is 62 feet ; its 

 length is about 12 or 15, and its breadth about 10 



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