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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



glacial movement, is in the vicinity of Straits Pond, two 

 miles away. 



If this block of conglomerate and Bigelow Bowlder 

 were traveling companions, Hull, or perhaps Hingham, 

 might have been the origin of both ; but if the big bowl- 

 der was later in getting started or slower moving, because 

 the ice could n't drag it as fast as its own movement, or 

 if the big bowlder came to a stop sooner than the other, 

 then the big one may be a Cohasseter, while the little one 

 is from Hull. Here they have been dwelling together 

 for about seven thousand years. 



There is another notable 

 bowlder about a half mile 

 south of Bigelow Bowlder, 

 on the left of Howe's 

 Road as one goes, towards 

 the stone bridge, about 

 one hundred and fifty 

 feet from the road. It is 

 called Rooster Rock, be- 

 cause it is perched five or 

 six feet high upon the top 

 of another bowlder. One 

 edge is propped up by a 

 different kind of stone 

 block, and a person won- 

 ders how the block hap- 

 pened to get in there just 

 in time to keep the bowlder from toppling over into the 

 valley below. 



This bowlder and its companions, originally joined, 

 form now a group, with a circumference of one hundred 

 and twenty feet. 



Another group, much larger and more famous, is about 

 one hundred and fifty yards farther along the road and 

 farther in to the left. 



Photo, M. H. Reamy, 



Rooster Rock. 

 Southeast side of Howe's Road. 



