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Next beyond this is Sandy Beach, aptly so called, while off 

 shore are Black Ledge, — ominous name, — and Brush Island. 

 At the end of this beach arc higher lands, very rocky, and with 

 great ledges extending out into the sea. Here is Kimball's, a 

 pleasantly situated tavern, celebrated for its fish and game fare, 

 somewhat as Taft's upon the north shore has been, for many 

 years. From here extend the stony beaches, picturesquely varied 

 with sea-worn ledges, known collectively as Pleasant Beach, 

 which terminates at Walnut Angle, as the northwest corner 

 of the Second Division was denominated, at the east end of 

 Cohasset Rocks. 



Now let us turn about, and taking the road by which we have 

 just come in reverse, return to Cohasset Harbor again. Thence 

 going west over the old Ship-Cove Lane (now Elm Street) we 

 before long reach South Main Street. 



South Main Street leads southeast to the Scituate line, at 

 Bound Brook, which was the Conohasset Rivulet of Hutchin- 

 son's History. Here, over the brook, was the old dam, a wide 

 roadway now, whereon stood the Old Mill. About half-way 

 over the dam, and presumably at the middle of the stream as it 

 was at the time, the Patent Line was established. Bound Rock 

 was at this point. It is now represented by a hewn granite stone, 

 set up to mark the spot, by Captain Martin Lincoln, of Cohasset, 

 more than half a century ago. 



When the Indian chiefs, Wompatuck and his brothers, gave a 

 deed of the territory of Hingham to the English in 1665, there 

 was also embraced in this instrument a tract of " threescore acres 

 of salt marsh " which lay on the further side of the Conohasset 

 Rivulet, in Scituate, in the Plymouth Colony. These lowlands 

 were known as The Conohasset Meadows. 



The Patent Line at Bound Rock was the base line north of 

 which the First, Second, Third, and Second Part of the Third 

 Divisions were directly or remotely laid out. 



It will be necessary to explain the significance of the term 

 " division," which often recurs in any description of the topog- 

 raphy of Hingham and Cohasset. 



When the Rev. Peter Hobart first came with his little band of 

 colonists to " Bare Cove," in 1635, he found several of his friends 

 who had settled there as early as 1633. " Bare Cove " was as- 

 sessed in 1634. The " plantation " was erected in July, 1635, and 

 on September 2nd, following, the name of the town was changed 

 to Hingham by authority of the General Court. There are but 

 eleven towns in the State, and only one in the county of Ply- 

 mouth, which are older than Hingham. 



On the 18th of September, 1635, Mr. Hobart and twenty-nine 

 others drew for houselots, and received grants of pasture and 

 tillage lands. This year specific grants of land were made to 

 upwards of fifty persons, and this method was followed for many 

 years ; but as the colony increased in size, and the people spread 



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