. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . l importance and theremains of which may be traced at the present time. It is the old cartway in the southeast part of the town,next to Scituate, along which many hundreds, probablythousands of cords of wood were hauled, when Cohassetshipped stove wood to the town of Boston. Near the mouth of Bound Brook at William Veales *present home there was a landing place in the marsh asindicated in the accompanying sketch, where the gon-dolas of olden time were filled with cord wood to be *Mr. Veale guided the author along this old way by th
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . l importance and theremains of which may be traced at the present time. It is the old cartway in the southeast part of the town,next to Scituate, along which many hundreds, probablythousands of cords of wood were hauled, when Cohassetshipped stove wood to the town of Boston. Near the mouth of Bound Brook at William Veales *present home there was a landing place in the marsh asindicated in the accompanying sketch, where the gon-dolas of olden time were filled with cord wood to be *Mr. Veale guided the author along this old way by thrusting a crowbarthrough the soft muck and striking the stones that had been laid there for afoundation of the road. 218 HISTORY OF COHASSET. taken down the Gulf. The old ruts of the road may stillbe followed back over the hills to the remains of an oldbridge at Bound Brook below Turtle Island and ontowards Beechwood. This is probably only one of severalancient roads no longer used, which served their day andgeneration and added to the resources of the Plan showing some Points of Interest at the Southern Boundary of the Town. CHAPTER XII. INDUSTRIES AND FIRESIDES. THERE are pools in the course of a mountain streamwhere the waters rest from their headlong tumblingand wait awhile in a contemplative mood before plungingon again towards the sea. At such a place the course ofour narrative now rests, while we consider some of thecustoms which were in vogue and the methods devised forgetting life to yield her sweets. The ingenuity and economy practiced by our forefathersamazes us, but they were driven to it by necessity. Theywere compelled to produce nearly everything they used,for they had but little money with which to buy foreignmanufactures and they had much inventive genius tosupply their own needs. If the flood of merchandisewhich nowadays flows in upon us to supply food and cloth-ing from all parts of the world were suddenly stopped, weshould be almost helpless ; but our
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