. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . to cross the road, but at a different anglefrom the first, its course being approximately northwest and south-cast. It consequently intersects the other at a point distant fiveto six hundred feet from the road, and there has its the angle between the two is a deep kettle-hole ridge extends northwest from the road between eleven andtwelve hundred feet. Cushing Street passes through another kame deposit, but this israther a hillock than a ridge, as it extends but a short distancefrom the road on either side. The Kam
. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . to cross the road, but at a different anglefrom the first, its course being approximately northwest and south-cast. It consequently intersects the other at a point distant fiveto six hundred feet from the road, and there has its the angle between the two is a deep kettle-hole ridge extends northwest from the road between eleven andtwelve hundred feet. Cushing Street passes through another kame deposit, but this israther a hillock than a ridge, as it extends but a short distancefrom the road on either side. The Kames near Great Hill. — In passing through New BridgeStreet towards Hobart, looking to the right may be seen, on land ofMr. F. W. Brewer, two high parallel ridges near the road, of aboutequal altitude, and which coalesce with each other about 900 feetfrom the street, by one of them — the most northerly — abruptlydividing, one branch crossing to the other ridge, the first con-tinuing beyond about 350 feet. The northerly kame crosses the mm The Geology of Hingham. 61 street, and its extreme length is 1825 feet. The height of theseridges is from 30 to 50 feet, with quite narrow summits, and hav-ing very sloping sides. Their composition is small stones, most-ly shingle, gravel, and sand. As seen from Great Hill, they arestriking objects to the view. A view of these is given, which alsoshows in the distance, at the left, one of the beautifully roundedsummits of a drumlin, that of Bakers Hill. A peculiarity of these kames is the fact that their direction isfrom west to east, thus being nearly at right angles to all otherswhich have been referred to. This direction would be entirelyinconsistent with the view that the great ice front of the glaciercontinued to present itself, as at an earlier period, along an un-broken line from west to east, for if so, the rivers caused by themelting glacier wTould have continued to flow south or nearly Upham, in endeavoring to account
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