. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . owthenough to loosen tons of granite from the ledges. Thicklyintertwined both by roots and by branches was the fabricof vegetation. Like any garment, it was subject to thefretting of moths ; but its living energy repaired all waste,and it grew steadily thicker until the hand of man wasset to its depletion. CLOTHED WITH VEGETATION. 67 A fair impression of the primeval verdure that coveredthese hills may be gained by a view from the top of Tur-key Hill across the billowy drumlins towards Bound shades of green are seen—the
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . owthenough to loosen tons of granite from the ledges. Thicklyintertwined both by roots and by branches was the fabricof vegetation. Like any garment, it was subject to thefretting of moths ; but its living energy repaired all waste,and it grew steadily thicker until the hand of man wasset to its depletion. CLOTHED WITH VEGETATION. 67 A fair impression of the primeval verdure that coveredthese hills may be gained by a view from the top of Tur-key Hill across the billowy drumlins towards Bound shades of green are seen—the light-colored copsesof young beech trees off to the right, the deeper green ofthe oak groves, and the dark patches of pine trees, andthe thick stumpy savins clustered about the rocky ledgesof the shore. No cultivated fields broke the view, allwas a heaving sea of variegated green lying beside aheaving sea of blue, with the white spray dashing between. The principal difference between this and the originalscene is in the matter of the pine trees. These were. Photo, Miss Harriet A. Nickerson. The Pines—Howes Road near Doane Street. probably much more plentiful at first than they are plain where the town Common spreads, was coveredsays tradition by a dense growth of pines. The sandyknolls in the upper part of Beechwood, such as Barn Hill,were pine lands. Artificial selection is somewhat differentfrom natural selection of favorites, so that elm trees have 68 HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. now usurped the place of many of natures evergreensthroughout the village. The vines and underbrush havethrived in pastures where the shady pines have been cut,but they have lost their grip in places where men havetaken a notion to uproot them. The Indians formerly burned the horsebriers and theroses and the bayberry and raspberry and blackberry inorder to make for themselves pathways and cornfields, andthe hands of white men have been even more ruthless;but these vines and shrubs have adopted
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