tends along the western border of the county more than twenty miles. It contains a family

of Shakers, a branch of the neighboring establishment at New-Lebanon in New-York. Population 1165.

Lanesborough is a good agricultural town and pleasantly situated. Here are extensive quarries of white marble and great quantities are wrought. Population 1318.

Lee is situated on both sides of the Housatonic. Six paper mills in this town consume annually 500 tons of rags. There are two woollen factories, two furnaces, two forges, and a powder mill. Marble, limestone, and iron ore are found here in abundance. Population 1384.

Lenox, on the Housatonic, is the shire town of the county. It contains a court house, academy, and jail; has a good soil and great abundance of iron ore, which is wrought to considerable extent. Limestone is also found in great plenty, and white marble is so abun

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dant, that it is used even for common door steps. Population 1315.

Mount Washington. This town lies upon the height of land between the Housatonic and Hudson Rivers, and embraces the summit of the Taghgannuck range of mountains.

Pittsfield lies in the valley between the Taghgannuck and Green Mountain ranges, at the junction of the principal branches of the Housatonic River. It is the chief town in the county, and contains several manufacturing establishments, a bank, a printing office, from which is issued a weekly newspaper, a seminary for young ladies, an academy, and a flourishing Medical Institution, connected with Williams College. About one hundred students attend the annual courses of medical lectures delivered at this school. Population 2768.

Sheffield is the oldest incorporated town in the county, and the second in population, having 2476 inhabitants. The banks of the Housatonic, on which it lies, are uncommonly fertile.

Stockbridge, also, lies upon the banks of the same river, and has a rich soil and beautiful

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scenery.

Limestone and marble abound. There is considerable water power in this place, a part of which is successfully appropriated to cotton and woollen factories. It has an academy, a bank, and a printing office. A small tribe of the Mohegan Indians formerly lived here, and had a large tract of land assigned to them by the Legislature in 1735. Population 1377.

West Stockbridge contains quarries of beautiful white and veined marble, which are extensively wrought for exportation, principally to New-York. The iron mines found in this township are productive and highly valuable. A few Indians remain in the town. Popula

tion 1034.

Williamstown, in the north-west corner of the county and State, lies in a fertile valley at the junction of Hoosac and Green rivers. It is chiefly celebrated for its college. Col. Williams bequeathed a large part of his estate for the permanent support of a free grammar school in this town. By an act of the Legislature, in 1793, the school received the charter of a college. It is a flourishing institution,

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having two large buildings, a library of 1500 volumes, and a valuable chemical and philosophical apparatus. About eighty-five students belong to the college, under the government and instruction of three tutors, two professors, and a president. Population of the town 2010.

GENERALIZATION.

Inhabitants, &c. Berkshire County contains 33 towns; in 1820 there were but 31, with an aggregate population of 35,720, of whom 836 were blacks. The county was incorporated in 1761, and sends two Senators to the Legislature. The people are chiefly engaged in agriculture, and find good markets for their surplus produce in the flourishing cities on the Hudson River, in the state of NewYork. The iron mines of the county are exhaustless, and are already productive to a considerable extent. They only wait for increased facilities of transportation to engage the attention of enterprising capitalists, and afford profitable employment for the industry of the people. Marble, extensive quarries of which is its present condition? What is the population of the town?

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have been opened in several parts of the county, forms an important article of commerce with the city of New-York.

Rivers. The Hoosac River rises, its north branch in Stamford, Vermont; its south in Lanesborough of this county. These two branches meet in the village of North Adams. The Hoosac receives Green River at Williamstown, crosses a corner of Vermont, passes into the State of New-York, and empties into Hudson River. It affords valuable water power, and is bordered by fertile banks.

The Housatonic has the sources of its two head branches, one in New-Ashford, and the other in Windsor, in this county. These streams meet in Pittsfield, where the river takes a southerly course through the county into the State of Connecticut; and seven miles from the line it rushes over a fall of 60 feet, between Salisbury and Canaan. These are the most considerable falls in New-England. The river then passes through the western part of the State of Connecticut, and after receiving several tributary streams changes its direction

duce? What is said of the iron mines of the county ? What of the marble quarries ?

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of its water power? Its banks?

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