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HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. 



respect for education, because from that time onward the 

 school was worthy of some attention, even when farm 

 work and fishing were going on. 



It must not be supposed that the studies of Cohasset 







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A Problem in Navigation. 

 From the book of Nathaniel Nichols, Jr.. 1745. 



young people were confined to subjects taught in our ordi- 

 nary grammar schools, for there were always a few young 

 men whose ambition led them into such studies as geome- 

 try and navigation. In this advanced work they were 



