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| Mount Greylock, outside North Adams, MA | |
This 3,491 foot peak is the highest point in Massachusetts. Melville could see it through his study window at Arrowhead, and the mountain reminded him of a whale. |
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| (photography by Rich Murphy) | |
| citation: http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/images/image.php?name=MMD1067 |