. Routes and rates for summer tours via picturesque B. & O. 1892 . )ul)lic park has latelybeen laid out on the hill to the , by Cyrus , a native of 8tockl)ridge. The village neatness is thewonder of every stranger. The mtuii street is from onehundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty feet wide,and all the streets ontside the wagon-way are kept closelymown and clean. Almost every house in town has a hand-some lawn aronnd it and flowers before it. One of themost noted scenic beauties of Stockbridge is its ftimonsBowl,* in the extreme northerly i);irt of the town, ;ind soclose
. Routes and rates for summer tours via picturesque B. & O. 1892 . )ul)lic park has latelybeen laid out on the hill to the , by Cyrus , a native of 8tockl)ridge. The village neatness is thewonder of every stranger. The mtuii street is from onehundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty feet wide,and all the streets ontside the wagon-way are kept closelymown and clean. Almost every house in town has a hand-some lawn aronnd it and flowers before it. One of themost noted scenic beauties of Stockbridge is its ftimonsBowl,* in the extreme northerly i);irt of the town, ;ind soclose to the line which divides it from Lenox that it isoften thought to belong: to tlie latter tow 318 BALTLVOtiE d- ONTO liAtLUOAD COMPAXT The prospect from urouiul the rim of the BoAvl isvery tine indeed, and attracts many visitors. Walks a])Outtown are in nnmerons directions. A favorite one is to IceGlen, a cleft across the spnr of Bear IMonntain, a short dis-tance from the village. Here, in a deej), cool, shady, wihlravine of irregular formation, is a luxurious retreat on ahot day, where .ice is found all summer down among thefallen rocks. Beyond Ice (Jlen a magnificent mountaiuoutlook is had from Lauras Rest. Here the range ofvision extends wide into Counecticut, Kew York and Ver-mont, on nearly every side of the observer, and the beautiesthat are spread before him are transcendent. Fine sidewalks from the centre of the village from one-half to three-quarters of a mile in every direction, andthese, well shaded, make delightful strolls. Prospect Hill,just above the village, commands one of the choicest viewsof beauty in the world. Laurel Hill, on the edge of thevillage, is the
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