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the street being known as the "dry dock." The unusual 

 trend of these eskers is not readily accounted for, but we risk 

 little in saying that their relation to Great Hill was probably 

 a deternn'ning cause. 



Passing the Hockley district, which is largely kanie-Iike in 

 character, the next group embraces three parallel ridges north 

 of Deal's Cove, from 400 to (iOO feet long: and trendinsr 

 about west-northwest. Still farther northwest, at the 

 re-entrant angle in the east shore of AVeymouth Back River, 

 about 1,600 feet south of Lincoln Street, we havis the 

 beginning of one of the finest and most extensive groups of 

 eskers in Hingham. It skirts the shore without an appre- 

 ciable break across Lincoln Street to the northern end of 

 Stoddard's Neck, a total distance of fully two thirds of a mile, 

 the general trend being quite normal, south-southeast. Li 

 detail, however, it is curving, winding, and branching, some- 

 times single and sometimes double, enclosinof kettles and a 

 pond, as shown on the map. The height varies from 25 to 50 

 feet, except on the west side of Stoddard's Neck, where it 

 exceeds 60 feet. 



Taking a general view, it is readily seen that all the eskers 

 of Hitigham may be referred to two slightly diverging lines or 

 systems. The western system has already been traced, begin- 

 ning in the magnificent series on the west side of Weymouth 

 Back River, in Weymouth, and including the eskers of Gushing 

 Street and Accord Pond. The eastern system begins on 

 Stoddard's Neck, and includes the kames and eskers of Beal's 

 Gove, Great Hill, Fulling Mill Pond, and Prospect Street. 



On both sides of Great Hill are distinct erosion terraces 

 corresponding in height to Glad Tidings Plain. Similar 

 benches, but agreeing in elevation with the Lower Plain, are 

 strongly marked on the southwest sides of Otis and Baker's 

 Hills, prominent features of these great drumlins and the work, 

 probably, of glacial streams tributary to the lake in which the 

 Lower Plain was formed. 



