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EARER is Bald Mountain (1,690 feet), near Shelburne Falls, and Mt. Grace (1,628 feet), near Warwick, and Mt. Tobey (1,275 feet). Near Mt. Tom (1,218 feet) are Mt. Holyoke (984 feet) and Norwottuck (1,115 feet). Northerly, beyond the Sugar Loaf Mountains, is Greenfield, a typical New England shiretown.
      Five miles away is Northampton, with the buildings of Smith College in plain view; also the state asylum for the insane. Easterly, less than four miles away, is South Hadley, where Mary Lyon, October 3, 1836, founded Mt. Holyoke College. The brownstone tower, with large clock-dials, is on the Administration Building. It doesn't seem to be three and one-half miles to the city-hall tower of Holyoke, the great paper-making city of this country. A leading papermaker of Holyoke once issued a standing challenge to "All England" to produce better paper than is made at Holyoke. Beyond is Chicopee and Chicopee Falls, producers of cotton cloth and automobiles.




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