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ing Prospect street, where the surface becomes more level and so 
continues until near Whiting street. 
The kame elevations of Hingham are by no means limited to the 
ridges and the rounded hills that cover so large a portion of its sur- 
face. They indeed present themselves sometimes in extensive de- 
posits that can hardly be included under the head of either. One 
such is of so marked a character and has such remarkable propor- 
tions, as may make particular mention of it desirable. This is to 
be found southwest from Great Hill, bordering the south side of 
Hobart street, along which it extends irregularly. It may proper- 
ly be designated as tableland, being of a height varying from 30 
to 50 feet, and having at top a flat surface. It measures in length 
east and west about half a mile and has a width of from 500 to 
1000 feet. Its sides are very steep and are thickly covered with 
trees. At the south side of it is a large kettle-liole, which is par- 
tially embraced in the kame limits by an extension of an arm from 
the main body. As a sketch of the kame, however rough, will give 
a better idea of its singular contour than any description, one is 
presented on the map of the town. 
The country about this interesting kame is well worth the obser- 
vation of those who would know of glacial phenomena in Hingham. 
North is Great Hill, one of the large drumlins, or lenticular hills, 
and south of it to High street and indeed far beyond, the country 
is covered with kame ridges and hillocks of irregular size and 
shape. 
The effect upon the surface of the town by the distribution of 
kame material was much greater than that caused simply by its 
deposit in hills, ridges and other elevations, for it is likely that all 
these contain scarcely one-lialf the whole quantity resting over its 
area. Temporary lakes formed by barriers of ice and other mat- 
ter, together with the flow of the waters, undoubtedly led to such 
spread of the gravel and sand as to result in the formation of the 
extensive plains that form at different levels so large a portion of 
the territory. This was not all, for great bodies of it were depos- 
ited in such depressions of the general surface as to choke up the 
water-courses. There is no doubt in the mind of the writer that 
our principal stream, that of Weir River, pursued its way in pre- 
glacial times through a very different channel from that it now fol- 
lows, and instead of turning east of north as it does at Hingham 
Centre just before reaching Leavitt street and finally entering the 
sea between World’s End and Hull, it discharged itself directly in- 
