CAPE COD 4 1 5 



reputation. The country in which these Cape Cod berr* 

 prodaeed is u most peculiar and interesting one. In fact, it is a 

 surprise to anyone not intimately acquainted with it. 



Let the reader lay ln-fore him a map of Massachusetts, and 

 locate Plymouth and Barnstable counties upon its eastern ex- 

 tremity. Upon the south. Buzzard's Bay thrusts 

 the two counties, and all but cuts off the long and low honk which 

 stretches eastward and northward to Cape Cod. In provincial 

 parlance, the Cape Cod region includes all the peninsular part of 

 . beginning with the lower and eastward projection of 

 Plymouth county. The cranberry r< . Dds from this 



. part of Plymouth county eastward to the elbow of the 

 peninsula, or, perhaps, even farther. 



rpon one of the upper arms of Buzzard's Bay the reader 

 may locate the old ami quaint town of Wareham. Here the tides 

 flow over long marshes bordering the inlet, and og the 



little river which flows lazily in from the Plymouth woods. 11' re 



la the thickets of alder and bay- 

 berry and Bweet fern, with their dashes of wild roses and vibur- 

 And in shelter.,! ponds th< ater-lily grows with 



- and pond-weeds in the most delightful abandon. In the 

 warm ami sandy o kimls of dwarf oak grow in profusion, 



bearing their multitude of acorns upon bushes scarcely as high 

 s head. The dwarf chestnut oak is often laden with its 

 pretty fruits when only two or time feet high, ami it 

 the prettiest Bhrubs in our east* rn flora. 



We drive northward over the winding and Bandy roads into 



rver, where the largesl cranberry plantations an' 



•. beaded towards Plymouth, and our journey 



lies in the "Plymouth woods." And here the surprises begin ! 



|)<> you look for fields of corn and grass, ami mhh; New England 



gardens, ami quaint old bouses whose genealogies run into centu- 



\ • -, you are picturing an old ami overworn country, from 



which the Impetuous youths have long ago fled to the new lands 

 of the West. Put while tgy witii our expectatioi 



plunging into a wnd'!^ wth, half- 



civilizi b primitive wasl i ami pitch- pini 



mt ry has m \ er beei 



- wilder | ! hunted, and 



