60 History of Hingham. 



from where it has been dug away at the line of boundary of the 

 land of the water company, follows a somewhat serpentine course, 

 first along the margin of the pond, southeast, and then in a north- 

 erly direction towards Whiting Street. After crossing this street 

 it continues in a northerly direction about 150 feet, then changing 

 and running westerly about 320 feet, where it terminates. The 

 whole length of the ridge is somewhat over five eighths of a mile. 

 It is well worth visiting, being a good example of a typical kame 

 ridge, and though generally wooded, is sufficiently open at the sum- 

 mit to allow of free passage to pedestrians. 



Kames op Gushing Street. — Proceeding from Whiting Street 

 north, through Gashing Street, the range called Breakneck Hills 

 is at first seen at a considerable distance on the left, but these 

 elevations gradually approach the road, and at about half a mile 

 from Whiting Street terminate quite near to it. No sooner are 

 these passed than there looms up on the right side of the way, 

 in rear of a farmhouse and adjoining fields, a high and very re- 

 markable ridge, which is well worth ascending, not only to study 

 its construction, but because it affords quite an extensive view 

 from its summit of the Breakneck (kame) Hills and other objects. 

 The height of this ridge is about 80 feet, its length about 1200 feet, 

 and the slope from the top, especially on the west side, very steep. 



A short distance north from the farmhouse mentioned, a great 

 kame ridge crosses the street, the transverse sections exposed by 

 digging the roadway through, rising high on each side. These 

 show the base of the ridge to be about 200 feet. Its greatest 

 height is about 100 feet. The length is greater than that of any 

 other in Hingham, being about a mile. Its general course is east- 

 southeast and north-northwest, but it is now so closely wooded as 

 to make particular examination difficult. Its southerly termina- 

 tion is quite near Gardner Street. 



Proceeding but a short distance further north on Cushing Street, 

 another ridge is found to cross the road, but at a different angle 

 from the first, its course being approximately northwest and south- 

 cast. It consequently intersects the other at a point distant five 

 to six hundred feet from the road, and there has its termination. 

 In the angle between the two is a deep kettle-hole depression. 

 This ridge extends northwest from the road between eleven and 

 twelve hundred feet. 



Cushing Street passes through another kame deposit, but this is 

 rather a hillock than a ridge, as it extends but a short distance 

 from the road on either side. 



The Kames near Great Hill. — In passing through New Bridge 

 Street towards Hobart, looking to the right may be seen, on land of 

 Mr. F. W. Brewer, two high parallel ridges near the road, of about 

 equal altitude, and which coalesce with each other about 900 feet 

 from the street, by one of them — the most northerly — abruptly 

 dividing, one branch crossing to the other ridge, the first con- 

 tinuing beyond about 350 feet. The northerly kame crosses the 



