over West Street, we turn to the right into Fort-Hill Street, which passes over FORT HILL, about a quarter of a mile farther southwest.   The old name was NICHOLS'S HILL, until, in the time of King Philip's War, a fort was built upon it for protection against Indian attacks, and the name was changed to Fort Hill.   When the top of the hill was cut off, the lines of the old fort were obliterated.   Near the end of this street, and close to the Weymouth line, is FRESH RIVER, a little stream rising in Bare Swamp; and emptying into Weymouth Back River.   A small branch of this flows from the neighborhood of Nutty Hill across Hobart Street.   The bridge across Fresh River at Fort-Hill Street is WEST BRIDGE.   The one over it on French Street is FRENCH'S BRIDGE.   At the corner of Fort Hill and French streets is a small sheet of water through which this little stream flows, called ROUND POND.
   New Bridge Street, which runs in a southerly direction from Fort-Hill Street, crosses Fresh River, passes through BARE SWAMP, and skirts the easterly side of GREAT HILL, which lies between it and Hobart Street.   Bare Swamp was, like all meadows found already cleared of forest by the early settlers, very valuable to them, for the reason that such lands afforded forage for their cattle.   In their system of valuation meadow property was rated highest, corn lands next, and woodlands least.   How the present estimate would reverse this if a portion of the magnificent primeval forest which they found were yet standing!   Bare Swamp, when they came, was found to have been cleared by the beavers, and received its name from its being bare of trees.   Those animals, evidently plenty up to that time, had by their dams across the watercourses, overflowed the vicinity.   This had, perhaps, been the case for centuries, at least for so Iong a period that the trees had died out and faflen, and meadow land was the natural consequence.
   Great Hill is rather a barren height, as are most of the small eminences about it but interspersed among; these are various little green and fertile meadows.   Some of them are under cultivation, others growing up to woods, which it is to be hoped will advance up the slopes of the hills, thus increasing their value and enhancing their beauty.   The neighborhood is of great interest to the geologist, exhibiting as it does, remarkable traces of the occupancy of this region by the great glacier.   PIGEON PLAIN is a sandy tract of land between the Great Hill district and High Street.   It was in early days a haunt of the wild pigeons.
   South of Hobart Street, and between it and High Street, lies HEMLOCK SWAMP.   At the corner of French and High streets is NUTTY (or NUTTER'S) HILL, so called because the early settlers found walnuts there in great abundance.
   Beyond High Street is Ward Street.   The portion of this road, OLD WARD STREET, which used to be a highway running nearly