78 HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



Another place of Indian life must have been near the 

 Cove ; for Captain John Smith, the first white visitor, 

 found savages there, as we shall see in the next chapter ; 

 but the white settlements have so long occupied the place 

 that all tradition of Indian remains found there has per- 

 ished. 



Just inside the Gulf Stream, on the Bryant place, at 

 least one grooved tomahawk was found twenty years ago. 

 As late as the summer of 1896 an Indian fireplace was 

 found on the border of Little Harbor, at the Manning 

 estate, and a pestle was dug up there. What further sea- 

 side settlements may be brought to light will only add 

 evidence to what is already proved pf the Indian life at 

 Cohasset. 



The inland nooks, among the pine trees near springs or 

 streams of fresh water, furnished a shelter from the furious 

 winds of winter ; and the hunters were nearer their game 

 in the woods, when the fishing on the sea was unsafe or 

 uncomfortable. 



One of these inland lodges was in Beechwood, at the 

 southwest corner of Beechwood and Doane Street, seventy- 

 five feet from either, where formerly an embankment 

 sloped towards the sun near Bound Brook. Isaiah Lincoln 

 dug up the old fireplace, finding a stone adze and a bit of 

 jawbone containing one double tooth. 



Besides the settlement on Barn Hill, of which we have 

 taken account, there was another winter resort of which 

 an authentic tradition tells the story. It was near a pond- 

 like widening of Bound Brook at the Falls upon the Scit- 

 uate boundary, a half mile in a straight line from the 

 Bound Stone. At this place there is a long hill sloping 

 towards the south, and here, where the warm sunshine 

 softened the rigors of winter, the Indians are said to have 

 resorted even as late as the time of white settlements. 

 Near the top of the hill under a rocky ledge a heap of 

 clam shells was dug into by Francis Lincoln about 



