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History of Hingham. 



the Ridge Road, or The Ridges. It runs north for some dis- 

 tance along a high bank, or ridge, beneath which lies Little Har- 

 bor, on the east side. The scenery in this direction is beautiful. 

 The little inland bay exhibits all its variety of outline from this 

 point, with its picturesque rocks, wooded headlands, and islands. 



In a field west of the road, and quite a distance from it, is a 

 huge bowlder balanced, apparently, so delicately upon a point that 

 it seems as if it could be easily dislodged from its position upon 

 a ledge where it lies 

 Rock. 



This has long been known as Tittling 



TITTLING ROCK. 



The road soon slopes downward on to a lower level and enters 

 woods, but still skirts Little Harbor. Winding along the edge of 

 a rocky descent, it crosses a salt marsh by a dike. On the left is a 

 jagged precipice, clothed partly with trees. This is Steep Rocks. 

 Around the marsh's edge and skirting the fout of the rocks is an 

 old road, Bow Street, which was once the principal highway, and 

 was used again after the great storm of April, 1851, which washed 

 away the dike, until this latter was rebuilt. 



