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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



nature with a band of dark trap about six inches thick. 

 It is not too fanciful to imagine that these noted men 

 looked with their own gaze upon it, when they decreed 

 that so many generations of posterity must fix their 

 attention there. 



It would be pleasant also to think that Accord Pond was 

 named by these same men as a sign of perpetual agree- 

 ment, but they confessed that it already had been so named. 



Photo, JI. H. Roamy. 



Hominy Point. Bassing Beach and Whitf. Head. 

 Taken from Government Island. Showing some of the Tlireescore Acres of marsh. 



But where were the Threescore Acres of marshes .'' It 

 is about a mile from the mouth of Bound Brook where the 

 Bound Rock is, down to the sea. Yet the marshes are so 

 named as to lie " at the mouth of the river on Scittuate 

 side next to the Sea." There is only one marsh of such a 

 size next to the sea, and that is outside of the reach of 

 Bound Brook, and is the marsh which terminates in Bass- 

 ing Beach upon its westerly extremity. 



This marsh has about sixty acres of grass, and is almost 

 surrounded by inlets, Briggs' on the east and Bailey's 



