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for a village. It is the region of Beechwood. This water- 

 washed gravel and sand is heaped against the side of such 

 drumlins as are in that region. 



Ledges are partly covered by it near the schoolhouse, 

 and the valley of Bound Brook is more or less filled by it. 

 One reason for the existence of Lily Pond is that the de- 

 posits of the glacier have choked up the natural channel 

 to the sea. It is a fairly safe rule, in the interpretation of 

 nature's story, to regard what are now the low places and 

 marshes as the spots where the ice lingered the longest 

 when the great glacier melted away. 



Not many are the years since men have been able to 

 read what nature has to tell of the ice age in this land. 

 At first the romance was too large to be comprehended or 

 believed by many ; but once having had their minds 

 opened by the indisputable marks of a continental ice 

 sheet, men who are familiar with nature's words have 

 come to count the glacial period as no longer a theory, 

 but a chapter, in the history of our land, most prodigious 

 in its effect upon our human careers. 



Well pleased are we that the town of Cohasset has 

 many beautiful specimens of the great glacier's work. 



