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BERKSHIRE BAIANOE ROCKS 



TWO JTOTABLE OKE.j IN COUNTY 



Marble Bowlder at l/aneKboro — ftusre 

 Rorb; oil MonuiiiPnt Moiintali^. 



FoT inanv vpnrs on? of the Kreatesl nat- 

 ural curiosities m Hi-rkshiro ..■onuty, Had 

 which ui cai-lier and later years has been 



BAI.ANf'.K ROCK, HOTJSATONIC. 



viRited liv armies of the (nirious, is Balance 

 roek, four miles north oC Pittsf3eld and near 

 the south line of l.aueshoro. This great 

 ■(vhite ninrblo bowlder is now of a deep 

 hrowti folor, and is searred and riven by 

 the storms of cenjiiries. It is 30 feet high, 

 15 wide and is so wonderfully poised on a 

 few feet at its base as to tremble at the 

 slightest touch. It weishs many hundreds of 

 tons and resembles from sPTeral points of 

 view a huge eps, a blacksmith's forge and 

 the back of an elephant. \\ resembles no 

 rock to be found on the Taconie mountain 

 ran.ge or its foothills, near which latter it 

 stands in sphin-t-like gnaurieur and silence. 



It is not generally known that there is 

 another balance rock in Berkshire about 

 of equal interest with that in Lanesboro. It 

 is on the highest point of the Monument 

 monntain, where it slopes toward the east, 

 and is 700 feet above the river at the vil- 

 lage of Housatonic. Its estimated -weight 

 Is over 100 tons. 



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