''AN HIGHWA Y SHALL BE THERE, AND A WA Vr 2O5 



and real highways cut through forests or dug through 

 hills. 



Two of Fisher's highways are now lying in the forest 

 west of King Street which no cart has ever traveled; 

 and only an expert can point out the stone wall which 

 marks them. Fisher did not attempt to travel all the 

 strips of land which he located for roads, as we shall see 

 when we speak of Beechwood Street. 



Originally there were, no doubt, several paths and 

 Indian trails traversing the town which now may be 

 guessed at. One probably came from Hingham Harbor 

 to Turkey Hill, which hill was a sort of look-off; it 

 then passed on to Lily Pond, touching probably on the 

 north side where the sunny slope meets the water ; thence 

 it might have found its way to the mouth of Bound 

 Brook. It will be remembered that in the chapter upon 

 "A Bone of Contention" the Massachusetts court spoke 

 of a bridge being upon Bound Brook as early as the year 

 1639. This was probably a mere log or logs felled across 

 the brook and resting perhaps upon Bound Rock, which 

 divides the stream and makes a middle pier. This old 

 footpath was traveled by the pioneers in visiting back 

 and forth between Hingham and Scituate, and was called 

 the King's Highway, a name which still clings to that 

 part in North Scituate running from the mill upon the 

 east side of Bound Brook to the railroad station. The 

 Hingham records, many years later, explaining why they 

 called our Lily Pond, Scituate Pond, said " because it 

 lyeth on the way leading to Scituate, and for no other 

 reason." 



This path through Cohasset was never perpetuated as 

 a cart road, and is now almost wholly obliterated.* There 

 was another pathway leading around the shore by way of 



* There is still remembered an old way or trail leading from the neighborhood 

 of Agricultural Hall to King Street near the pond. An old deed (1755) of an 

 acre of Hezekiah Tower's homestead sold to John Burbank for £2 mentions 

 this " Way." 



