Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachu- 

 setts : the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay ; the elbow, or 

 crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre ; the wrist at Truro ; 

 and the sandy fist at Provincetown,— behind which the 

 State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green 

 Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, 

 like an athlete protecting- her Bay, — boxing with north- 

 east storms, and, ever and anon, heaving up her Atlantic 

 adversary from the lap of earth,— ready to thrust forward 

 her other fist, which keeps guard the while upon her 

 breast at Cape Ann. 



H. D. Thoreau. 



