Cape Cod and the Old colony (1921) (14779986041)

Identifier: capecodoldcolony1921brig (find matches)
Title: Cape Cod and the Old colony
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Cape Cod (Mass.)
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries



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aharan oases, on the shores of France, Britainor the Low Countries, on the banks of theColimibia River, and, for at least two hundredyears, in the outer parts of Cape Cod. On the French coast and elsewhere, stakeand brush fences are carried along the crest ofa dune, that the sands may lodge in andbeyond them. When the fence is engulfed an-other is erected above it, until after sufficientupward building, the winds fail to carry thesand over and a barrier dune has come intobeing which protects the inland fields frominvasion. This method has never been used on theCape, where the more widespread method pre-vails of supplementing natures protectiveefforts, by preserving natural vegetation andby artificial plantings of grasses and trees.Readers of Thoreau recall his playful imag-inings about tying up the Cape to its moor-ings, and they remember his references to thewarning-out of the townsmen in the spring toplant beach grass in exposed situations. Fewer than the readers of Thoreaus classic
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4 M The Changing Shoreline 93 sketches are those who know that one of theobjects of the agricultural explorers sent outall over the world from Washington has beento find sand-binding grasses, which wouldavail to hold dunes in place for the salvationof harbors and cultivated lands. The dangersof sand shifting have long been recognized onCape Cod and the great fear was that the sandsmight invade the harbor of Provincetown andthus destroy one of the most importanthavens on the New England coast. The force of the winter storms is little real-ized by the summer inhabitants. A singlestorm may dash the sands so effectively onwindows close to the shore that their trans-parency is destroyed. At the Highland LifeSaving Station, the life guards say that theyhave covered a pane of glass with a stencil,and have seen letters well etched in a stormblowing for three hours. Sand grains as largeas grains of wheat have been freely swept upfrom the beaches and deposited on the dunes,wind velocities of fi