Lenox Church on the Hill-top commands eighteen miles of valley in middle Berkshire; its burnished tower serves as a beacon to strangers. Mounted therein, the imaginative pilgrim may fancy that he is in a lookout-tower on an island's wooded height, and misty mountain ranges rolling like billows of the sea on toward the horizon.

The ground on which the church stands was a gift in 1770 of the children of the Rev. Peter Reynolds of Enfield, Conn. 'Neath the quaintly carven cherubim on the churchyard slates you trace sweet and stern old-time sentiments and warnings, to the thoughtless.

Close at hand rise the magnificent wooded heights of the old Woolsey and Aspinwall estates, now Aspinwall Hill, whence the horizon broadens to the Catskills. You may drive a dozen miles over the roads of this natural park, and cross Lenox range by the West Mountain road: so dense are the hemlocks that after dark the path is shrouded in an intense witching blackness, and the belated traveller is fain to loosen rein, and allow his horse to pick his own road. Deer were so plentiful on these heights that Lenox annually elected officers called " deer-reeves."

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