Excerpt from The Physical Geography of Worcester MassachusettsBut no sooner do we reach the summit of Millstone Hill than we begin to descend the southern slope to Belmont Street. Here is Bell Pond, formerly called Bladder Pond, one of the three natural ponds of Worcester. We con tinne directly south from Bell Pond, the mpe at times being almost precipitous, and descend in all 280 feet into the narrow gorge, through which Shrewsbury Street and the Boston Albany Railroad enter the city. As you have many times passed through this on your way to and from the beautiful lake beyond, have you ever asked yourself the questiom - Why is there this sudden break between Millstone Hill and the highland south of the Boston Albany Railroad? Thus the very landscape about us is teeming with questions. On crossing the railroad, con tinning to the south, we immediately ascend a steep slope, and at the highest points on'this hill find ourselves 700 feet above the sea, about 60 feet below the highest part of Mill stone Hill. Over the crest of this hill passes Plantation Street, which we follow, and thence cross to Providence Street hill about 100 feet lower. But here the elevated land, which north of the Boston Albany Railroad is a ridge about half a mile wide at the top and two miles wide at its base, becomes broad and triangular, gradual] y sloping on the east to Lake Quinsigamond and Quinsigamond River, and on the west and southwest sloping quite abruptly to the valley of Mill Brook and the Blackstone. This broad area has many rounded hills and is a rolling upland drained by many brooks, the longer and larger of which ¿ow to the east and southeast because of the longer slopes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.