THE AMERICAN BOTAXIST. 
which extend six miles from east to west. An ascent hy 
way of the Cheshire Harbor trail is the most gradual, yet 
at best it is a tedious, wear\% meandering path to be 
traveled before one arrives at the Divide, and the Lanes- 
boro-Pittsfield Road, a mile from the summit. No one 
should leave the great hill until he has dipped down into 
the fearful abj'ss of the Hopper and the inner heart of 
Greylock. It would be wise to pitch a tent on the Alpine 
Club's camping ground about the wild grass^^ meadows 
of Bald Mountain, and leisurely explore the Cascades of 
Mone\' Brook as the\' leap toward the deep chasm of the 
From whatever source of Nature the mind may derive 
its store of beautiftd scenes and hap[)v memories the 
supply is sufficient for all time, and life' cannot seem a 
failure to him who comrades with the mountains and 
listens to their inspiring voices. He who has rested upon 
the brow of Bald Mountain can still hear in memory the 
ilistant soft rushings and louder gushings of the Cascades 
as from the shaggy brows of Greylock they leap down- 
down into the heart of the abvss, a thousand feet below 
at the giant's base. 
The Hopper region is girded with rugged heights, 
ippearing much like a miller's hopper. Soon now the 
-arly morning mists dissolve from the brotherhood, and 
the sun beams over the shoulders of ^Mounts Williams, 
Fitch and Grevlock, and kisses the bold forms of Prospect 
and Bald Mountains. The whole world seems beautiful 
in its new birth as the distant lilue peaks of the Green and 
White Mountains roll off, one wave after the other like 
mist-billows on an atmospheric sea I 
There is a trail of easv gradation leading from the 
College town of Williamstown through the Ho[)per. It 
winds around the north slope of Bald^Mountain through 
deep shades of si-ruce and hnrdly leads to the wild 
meadows at the l.asc f)f Greylock near the camp grounds 
of the Alpine Ciub. Keei)ir,i to the left corner of this field 
one finds a path leading slightly to the right for a ciuarter 
