CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 

 What and Where i 



Rocky Shore — Cooting — Yachting — Jerusalem Road — Granite 

 Wall — Livelihood — Churches — Old and New. 



CHAPTER H. 



Making the Rock Bottom • lo 



Uneven Rock Surface — Granite forming in the Earth's Bowels — 

 Three Kinds — Dikes — Faul tings. 



CHAPTER in. 

 How the Soil came 31 



The Glacier — Its Formation, its Movement — Scratches — Drumlins 



— Indian Pot — Tipling Rocks — Punch Bowl — The Ridges. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Clothed with Vegetation 54 



Snow Alga and Seaweed — Lichens — Mosses — Ferns — Funguses 



— The Coming of the Forests — Grasses — Trees — Shrubs. 



CHAPTER V. 

 The Aborigines 69 



Prehistoric Life — Stone Axes, Knives, Sinkers, etc. — The Algonquin 

 Tribes — Camps by our Shore — Gookin's Description — Winslow on 

 their Religion — The Indians' Yearly Program. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 The " Quonahassit " Pioneers 93 



Early Wanderers — John Smith's Discovery of our Harbor, 1614 — 

 Meaning of Name Cohasset — The First Appearance on a Map — 

 From Old Hingham to New — Our Marsh Hay — Pasture for 

 Hingham — The Mihtia Rebellion. 



