Scribner's magazine . ent pricewhen its worth is determineil by itsadai:)tability for raising palaces. Thereare strange stories of the sudden appre-ciation in price of old farms all throughthis part of the country, but there areno more marvellous tales told anywherethan those recounted of the advance ofLenox real estate. Tens have been usedas multipliers, and now almost all thebest land is out of the market. There are two lakes—the StockbridgeBowl, or Lake ^lackeenac, and LaurelLake—about which the country housesare chiefly gathered; but it is on theeast side of the Bowl, and up and downand ar
Scribner's magazine . ent pricewhen its worth is determineil by itsadai:)tability for raising palaces. Thereare strange stories of the sudden appre-ciation in price of old farms all throughthis part of the country, but there areno more marvellous tales told anywherethan those recounted of the advance ofLenox real estate. Tens have been usedas multipliers, and now almost all thebest land is out of the market. There are two lakes—the StockbridgeBowl, or Lake ^lackeenac, and LaurelLake—about which the country housesare chiefly gathered; but it is on theeast side of the Bowl, and up and downand around its ends, that perhaps thelargest and finest are to be an; others between the Bowl andLaurel Lake, and all around the latter,but then there are country houseseverywhere in this land — on nearlyevery good spot, and sometimes soanxious are people for i)laces, onspots that are not so good. The new-comer is shown these, one after an-other, with the mention of some fa-miliar contemporaneous name, and. DRAWN BY W. S. VANDERBILT ALLEN. One of the Drives. ENGRAVED BY H. W. PECKWELU
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