Ancient Landmarks. 191 



Near its junction with Lcavitt Street is Pine-Log Hill. The 

 Iron Mine (so called) is here at the corner of the lane, although 

 indistinguishable in the undergrowth. It is hard to say now 

 what gave this name to the locality. Near it is Black Snake 

 Hill. Dismal Swamp is northeast of the Iron Mine, and ex- 

 tends into Cohasset. Close by is, or rather was, the famous 

 Forest Sanctuary. This was an open grove of noble pines, the 

 growth of centuries, — the ground beneath them being carpeted 

 with a thick layer of fragrant pine needles, with gray and mossy 

 rocks here and there. The name was a fitting one, and well ex- 

 pressed the quiet grandeur of the natural beauty of this remote 

 spot. But it was deemed desirable to sweep away these superb 

 trees in order to 



" coin their blood for drachmas/' 



and Forest Sanctuary has accordingly long been a thing of the 

 past. 



We are now in the Third Division Woods, which extend far 

 and wide, over hill, dale, and swamp, and form probably the near- 

 est approach to the primeval wilderness which can be found 

 within fifteen miles of Boston. They spread over into Cohasset, 

 and far southward. The deciduous part of these woodlands is 

 largely composed of various species of the oak family ; the ever- 

 green portion principally of the white pine, although many other 

 species of both classes of trees abound. At the side of the old 

 Third Division Road, on the line between Hingham and Cohasset, 

 is a mark which was called the Stone Bounds. When the select- 

 men of the two towns " make their rounds," they are popularly 

 and mysteriously supposed to reach this mark at high noon, and 

 according to the ancient custom "'crack a bottle" against it. 

 Other landmarks in Third Division Woods are Josh Leavitt's 

 Bars, on the right side of the way near the road to Beechwoods. 

 Near by is Thorph. Burr's Hill, so called from a Mr. Burr, who 

 owned land at its foot. Glass Rock was on the line of the Third 

 Division, far south. 



Now let us return again to Leavitt Street, and, retracing our 

 former course, turn to the eastward into Turkey Hill Lane, 

 which leads up over three quite elevated eminences, until we reach 

 the principal height of Turkey Hill. It is nearly a mile to this 

 summit. At the first bend, to the right of the lane, are the re- 

 mains of what was once a ledge, or enormous bowlder, about 

 twelve feet high, with a rounded top sloping off smoothly to the 

 south. This was Great- Rock. Upon this smooth surface an 

 eccentric individual had chiselled in large letters this odd inscrip- 

 tion : — 



" When wild in woods the naked savage ran, 

 Lazell, Low, Loring, Lane, Lewis, Lincoln, 

 Hersey, Leavitt, Jacobs, King, Jones and Sprague, 

 Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, 

 And were the first invaders of this country 

 From the Island of Great Britain, in 1635." 



