Excerpt from Sheffield in the Berkshires Loftiness and grandeur of the mountains. To the south are the pi turesque Canaan hills; to the east the low lying mountains roll off in successive bil lows; the western view is obstru ted by the Taconic range rising upward to the Dome; and to the north are glimpses of the uplands of central and northern Berk shire. It touches Conne ticut on the south and is shut off from the state of New York only by the western mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.