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The largest perched bowlder of our town is about a 

 half mile south of the almshouse, and a half mile west of 

 King Street, at the point where Sohier Street ends. 



It has been named Bigelow Bowlder, weighs twice as 

 much as Tipling Rock, and it rests upon two points with 

 its under side so bent up as to allow a man sufficient room 

 to crawl under, where the glaciated surface of the ledge is 

 as smooth to the touch as when the bowlder first glided to 

 its place. 



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Bigelow Bowlder. 



The largest glacial traveler in the town, resting on a ledge half a mile west 

 of King Street, from the head of Sohier Street. 



Bigelow Bowlder is granite, as all the large bowlders 

 are ; but there is a little bowlder of conglomerate, about a 

 cubic yard in volume, only twenty feet to the southeast. 

 This piece of pudding stone must have been torn from 

 some ledge outside of Cohasset, for this town has no such 

 ledge. The nearest one, in Hull, in the direction of the 



