Question

what is the great stone face

Answer 1

The Great Stone Face" is a short story published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story reappeared in a full-length book, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in 1852. 

Answer 2

The great stone face is a work of nature in which rocks are assembled in a manner that when it resembles the face of a human when viewed from a proper distance.