ILLUSTRATIONS 



Cohasset Railway Station Frontispiece 



The " Stern aii'l Rock-bound Coast " 2 



One Day's Bag of Coots for Four Men 4 



Great Diabase Dike, Jerusalem Road 21 



Gap on Windmill Point 23 



Dike at White Head 24 



Glacial Scratches . 36 



Shell Fragments 39 



Indian Pot 42 



Tipling Rock 44 



Bigelow Bowlder 45 



Rooster Rock 46 



Ode's Den 47 



Burbank Bowlder 48 



BlacUler Rockweed 55 



Bladder Rockweed, Magnified 55 



Bladder Rockweed upon Windmill Point 56 



Little IIarl)or 64 



The Pines, Howe's Road 67 



Indian Stone Sinkers 71 



Indian Stone Bobs 72 



Squaw's Knife 82 



Spearheads, Knife Blade 87, 90, 91 



Captain John Smith 95 



Wintinop Map (South Shore) loo 



Haying, Eleazer's Lane 112 



Wooden Bridge at the Gulf 124 



Hominy Point and Bassing Beach 128 



Map of Division of Lands, Rocky Nook 157 



Old Souther Home 160 



Turtle Island Sawmill 168 



Squire Pratt's Office 174 



Old Curiosity Shop 177 



Settle and Flax Wheel 180 



Where the Sea Lashes the Rock 186 



" When Winter's Snowy Pinions Shake the White Down in the Air " . 197 



Mouth of Little Harbor in Winter 201 



The Pioneer's Chariot 204 



Panorama of Elm Street 206, 207 



The New State Road in Great Swamp 215 



Plan of Southern Boundary of Town 217 



Beginning of a Logbook 228 



C'ut of Ship from Nathaniel Nichols' Notebook 229 



Cheese Press, etc 232 



Ready for Church One Hundred Years Ago 238 



Mystery Millstone 251 



Lincoln Homestead 254 



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