Geology of the Boston Basin, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Geology of the Boston Basin, Vol. 1IT is obvious upon the most casual observation that the town of Hull, Mass., which is virtually an island. Being joined to the main land of Cohasset only by the narrow barrier beach con necting the Green Hill drumlin with the granite ledges along the Jerusalem Road, is sharply divided into two districts which are very strongly contrasted in their topographic and geologic features. In the order of geologic age and interest these are: (1) The highly irregular. Broken and rocky tract, commonly known as Nantasket, which forms the southern extremity of the town, adjoining the mainland, and is almost eompletelv isolated by Strait's Pond, W'eir River Bay, fantasket Harbor and. The Atlantic. (2) The narrow, and, at some points, extremely slender peninsula stretching from Atlantic iiill north-northwest for more than three miles to Point Allerton, whence, turning at a right angle, it extends to the westward two miles further to Pemberton and Windmill Point. This peninsula thus embraces Nantasket Beach and the Village of Hull and, with the excep tion of the single ledge of slate on the south side of Thornbush Hill, near the Village, it is composed entirely of rounded drift hills or drumlins and the connecting beaches of sand and shingle. The dividing line between these two districts is where the sands of the beach rest against the rocky northern base of Atlantic Hill.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.