UP TO DA TE. 527 



The kind of water thus obtained stands a very high test 

 under the State Board of Health. The monthly analysis 

 is fairly represented by the following for April, 1896: Dis- 

 tinct turbidity, slight sediment, color .10 (about one tenth 

 that of Boston water for six years' average), odor none 

 (either cold or hot), residue on evaporation totItoi ^''^e 

 ammonia none, albuminoid f^^^^o» chlorine tttwW nitro- 

 gen rn^VW oxygen consumed tSM-qo' hardness 8.7, iron 



• 0_7 



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In this analysis the presence of chlorine indicates that 

 a little salt from our sea air has got deposited in our hill- 

 sides and meadows where the water that soaks into the 

 ground carries it along into our wells. However, the 

 amount is hardly worth speaking of, for according to this 

 analysis it takes more than three tons of our water to 

 furnish less than two ounces of chlorine. The unusual 

 amount of iron held in solution adds to the hardness of 

 the water, but this is unavoidable where the granite rock 

 and clay furnish so much of this metal. 



An inspection of the names of those who attended the 

 first meeting of the Cohasset Water Company shows sev- 

 eral of the summer residents whose interest in the town 

 has grown out of its attractiveness to them as a summer 

 resort. Moreover, this public convenience has made it 

 possible for a number of summer homes to be built upon 

 the ledges along our shore where no wells could be dug, 

 except by a rock boring such as G. T. W. Braman's upon 

 Jerusalem Road, and thus still more summer residences 

 have been made available. 



Many persons who have built along our shore in these 

 later years were first drawn here by the pleasures of a sum- 

 mer visit. For more than seventy-five years this custom 

 of summering at Cohasset has been developing. Board- 

 ing places like the Black Rock, Kimball's Hotel, the War- 

 ren Bates House, the Lothrop House, and others have 

 been filled for many years by visitors. 



