above all other buildings, and embowered in fine trees, it is too well known to need description here.   In simple, homely grandeur it towers there, a century older than the republic itself.   If it could speak so as to be heard by mortal ears, what might it not reveal of the dead and of the living, of the story of the past!   But to those who love Hingham and her history, it has a thousand tongues which are never silent.
   Main Street, as far as PEAR-TREE HILL, which is the steep bluff at the beginning of the Lower Plain, was, in the earliest times, known as BACHELOR'S ROWE, or BACHELOR STREET.
   The salt marshes east of the road, below Pear-Tree Hill, are the HOME MEADOWS.
   Having surmounted Pear-Tree we are upon the LOWER PLAIN, which is a tract of mainly level country extending south as far as Tower's Bridge, on Main Street.   But we will leave this street and take Leavitt Street eastward.   A large, low building on the corner, under a noble buttonwood-tree, was, in former days, LEWIS'S INN.   The large, old-fashioned building east of it was once the old ALMSHOUSE.
   Leaving the Agricultural Hall upon the left, we soon come to Weir River, here crossed by LEAVITT'S BRIDGE.   A short distance further on, a way is reached winding off to the right and south, is POPE'S LANE, or POPE'S HOLE.   At the first turn on this lane are the CLUMP BARS, known also to the boys of past generations as PLUMB BARS.   This is evidently a corruption, as they derived the name from being, in former times, near a clump of trees when there were but few trees in the vicinity.   The country thereabouts had not then grown up to woodlands, but was devoted to tillage or pasturage.   Between this lane and Weir River lies ROCKY MEADOW.   Turning to the eastward, the way leads into thick woods, in a rocky, rolling country, and among these, on the right side of the lane, is the wild and romantic ledge known as INDIAN ROCK.
   Nearly opposite this rock is CHUBBUCK'S WELL, and the cellar of CHUBBUCK'S HOUSE, which house itself was demolished in 1759.   This old well, now filled to the brim with leaves and débris, yet shows the carefully built wall, as good now as when constructed by Thomas Chubbuck, who was an early settler in 1634.
   Further down the lane there is a rocky place in the woods called THE HOGPEN.
   The lane, turning westward, crosses TRIP-HAMMER POND by a causeway.   This pond is formed by Weir River, which flows through it.   There were formerly iron works here, with a trip-hammer, and also a shingle factory.
   Returning to Leavitt Street (the part of which leading into Third Division Woods was the old THIRD DIVISION LANE) we will stop to look into JAMES LANE, now so overgrown with woods that it cannot he distinguished, except by its location, from other cartways into the forest.   It leads to JAMES HILL, in Cohasset.