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NE can see the Deerfield of Indian history, and Hadley, where the Cromwellian regicides led the settlers against an Indian attack, and where "fighting Joe Hooker" was born. Peru church is literally nearer the heavens than any other church in Massachusetts, yet Blanford's steeple is ambitious. Goshen, Haydenville, Williamsburg, Leyden, Shutesbury, Pelham, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Ludlow, Granby, Belchertown, Longmeadow, Enfield, Thorndike, Thompsonville, Rockville, Somers, Feeding Hills, West Springfield, Mittineague, East Hartland, Tolland, Middlefield, Westhampton, Southampton, Florence, Leeds, and Bay State are in view, besides many other places which may be pointed out to visitors by the person in charge of the observation hall.
"A thousand beauties never seen before
Glide with sweet surprises into my soul.
Here sorrow, with a dimness o'er her face,
Might be beguiled to smiles—almost forget
Her sufferings, and in Nature's living book
Read characters so lovely, that her heart
Would, as it blessed them, feel a rising swell
Almost like joy. An earthly paradise."
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