Download or read book A Brief History of the Barre Cattle Shows (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Edwin Woods and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief History of the Barre Cattle Shows There is the Rocking Stone, for instance, a surprising natural phenomenon, where two great boulders are so delicately poised ou-e upon the other, with so small a point of contact with the imbedded stone beneath, that, it is said, in times past, they actually were rocked by the wind or by the pressure of a child's hand, and yet so firmly fixed that forty yoke of oxen could not dislodge them. From certain points of view these stones resemble a gigantic old fashioned cradle with its hood. When visited by that distinguished scientist, Professor Louis Agassiz, more than sixty years ago, he said it might have been a cradle of the Titans, but surely was deposited there by the enormous glaciers which covered this part of the country in by - gone ages. Similar rock is. Found only in the valley of the St. Lawrence. This curiosity is reached by a delightfully picturesque carriage drive, or by automobile, scarcely three miles west of the village. About the same distance due north is the splendid new Manor House of Col. William A. Gaston, the President of the Society, in the midst of the thousand or more broad and fertile acres of Killingly Farm. From the hill-top here may be seen great mountains, Monad nock, Mount Tom, Greylock, and, on a particularly clear day, the Presidential Range, to say nothing of the nearer Wachusett. 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.