I 5 6 HIS TOR V OF COHA SSE T. 



long strips lay so unevenly upon hills and valleys that 

 many of them had to be sold piecemeal. 



But the importance of the work done by the surveyor in 

 marking the first ownership of Cohasset uplands rests in 

 the fact that individuals from that time forward might 

 build for themselves homes, where they would be defended 

 by their land titles from every artificial hindrance in gain- 

 ing a livelihood. 



It is to the epoch of home-building therefore that we 

 now have come. 



