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23.— НАтСН'5 Rock, ox BoorH HILL, 
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overlooks the salt marshes tribu- 
tary to the Gulf. Going up from 
the marsh we come, at a height 
of 25 feet, to a distinct and level 
terrace, which is several hundred 
feet wide midway of the length of 
the hill, where the church stands 
upon it, but narrows toward either 
end. The road running from the 
church over the hill rises, at the 
cemetery, 15 or 20 feet to a well- 
defined terrace and bowlder pave- 
ment from 100 to 200 feet wide. 
In the vicinity of the church the 
main highway between North 
Scituate and Scituate Harbor runs 
on the lower terrace. But farther 
west, near the school house, it 
rises to the second terrace. From 
the school house a private road 
ascends the hill and brings us at 
a height of about 30 feet (70 
feet above the marsh) to a third 
terrace, which is at least 300 feet 
wide and thickly strewn with 
bowlders. This terrace cannot 
be clearly traced so far east as 
the highway across the hill; and 
like both the others, it dies out 
near the west end of the hill. 
Following the private road about 
30 feet higher (100 feet above 
the marsh) we come to a broad, 
level plain, which seems at first 
to form the summit of the hill; but on tracing it eastward 
