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continued with 

 the same char- 

 acter in Home 

 Meadows ; while 

 the modern char- 

 acter of the 

 present valley 

 of Weir Kiver 

 below this point 

 is seen in its 

 contracted form, 

 its rapid descent 

 north of the rail- 

 road, and the 

 fact that the 

 actual channel 

 of the river is 

 frequently bor- 

 dered by the 

 massive granite 

 ledges. 



When the ice 

 had retreated 

 some distance 

 north of the rail- 

 road, but still 

 filled the valleys 

 of Weymouth 

 Back River and 

 Hingham Har- 

 bor, and rested 

 against the hiijh 

 rocky land ex- 

 tending from Old 

 Colony Hill east- 



