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HE view from Mt. Tom is one of infinite variety. It is a rare pastime to watch the sky from the piazzas, or from some cozy nook of the palisaded trap-rock, and see the glorious cloud-pictures, with their ever-varying effects, on favorable days for vapory formations.
Afar off (fifty-one miles) to the north, in the Granite State, is the massive bulk and impressive outlines of Monadnock (3,186 feet) with its rock-armored peak, a kingly mountain, from this distance a great softened shadow against the sky. To the northwest is "Haystack," near Wilmington, Vt., and Stratton Mountain, miles beyond "Haystack." On a very clear day Mt. Ascutney, Vt. (3,228 feet), eighty-five miles distant, can be seen through the most powerful telescope. To the east is Wachusett (2,108 feet), sixteen miles northerly of Worcester. To the west is Greylock, in Berkshire (3,535 feet), the highest land in Massachusetts. Near Greylock is the tunnelled Hoosac Mountain (2,480 feet), and farther to the north is Marlboro Mountain.
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