. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . lower moving, becausethe ice could nt drag it as fast as its own movement, orif the big bowlder came to a stop sooner than the other,then the big one may be a Cohasseter, while the little oneis from Hull. Here they have been dwelling togetherfor about seven thousand years. There is another notablebowlder about a half milesouth of Bigelow Bowlder,on the left of HowesRoad as one goes towardsthe stone bridge, aboutone hundred and fiftyfeet from the road. It iscalled Rooster Rock, be-cause it is perched five orsix feet high upon the to
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . lower moving, becausethe ice could nt drag it as fast as its own movement, orif the big bowlder came to a stop sooner than the other,then the big one may be a Cohasseter, while the little oneis from Hull. Here they have been dwelling togetherfor about seven thousand years. There is another notablebowlder about a half milesouth of Bigelow Bowlder,on the left of HowesRoad as one goes towardsthe stone bridge, aboutone hundred and fiftyfeet from the road. It iscalled Rooster Rock, be-cause it is perched five orsix feet high upon the topof another bowlder. Oneedge is propped up by adifferent kind of stoneblock, and a person won-ders how the block hap-pened to get in there justin time to keep the bowlder from toppling over into thevalley below. This bowlder and its companions, originally joined,form now a group, with a circumference of one hundredand twenty feet. Another group, much larger and more famous, is aboutone hundred and fifty yards farther along the road andfarther in to the Photo. M. H. Reamy. Rooster side of Howes Road. HOW THE SOIL CAME. 47 It is Odes Den, so called because one Theodore Pritch-ard, about seventy years ago, made his abode there undera large fragment of rock.* The whole group is over eighty feet across and one hun-dred feet long, stretched towards the south. The glaciertugged long at it, but the blocks could not be far separated. A really beautiful poising of a bowlder is to be seenfarther on in the woods. It is Burbank Bowlder, twohundred yards from Rattlesnake Den, a quarter mile south-east of the Piggery, and a quarter mile north of DoaneStreet. It was in the oldcart track near this bowlderthat Odes corpse wasfound. One must feel thedelicacy of the bowlderspoise as he looks throughto daylight underneath it,and sees the two pointsupon which its sixty orseventy tons are balanced. But the glacier did amuch larger business inbowlders than we haveroom to enumerat
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