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streams, drain all of the ponds and swamps. There are a great many 

 sizable ponds throughout the County, a number of which are surrounded 

 by summer camps, such as John Pond and Ashumet Pond, Mashpee Pond and 

 IVakeby Pond in Mashpee; Ohequaquet Lake and Cotuit Pond in Barnstable; 

 Lawrence Pond, Triangular Pond, Spectacle Pond, Peters Pond in SandTuich; 

 Pilgrim Lake in Truro; Gull Pond, Great Pond, Sheep Pond, Long Pond 

 and the Mill ponds in Brewster and Pleasant Lake in Harwich and Follins 

 Pond, Mill Pond and Swann Pond in Yarmouth. All of these ponds are 

 well situated for use by the summer people. In addition to a.ll of 

 these waterways , there ere an unusual number of bays and necks on which 

 summer homes have been built. 



Soil. 

 The greater part of the soil on the Cape is glacial deposit. 

 History tells us that there were at least two glaciers which came down 

 over that section, dropping terminal as well as lateral moraines s.nd 

 gouging out the hollows and forming the rivers and hills which we find 

 today. The soil in the towns of Orleans, Eastham, Truro, Wellfleet 

 and Provincetown consists principally of sand. The soil on the other 

 towns of the Oape which are Brewster, Harwich, Chatham, Dennis, Yarmouth 

 B8,rnsta-ble, Mashpee, Sandwich, Bourne and Falmouth, have a very good 

 mixture of loam, raising the texture of the soil to a point where it is 

 capable of producing much better vegetation then the first named towns. 

 Even the swampy areas exe not what is commonly visualized as swamps. 

 They are low, wet areas, but are well drained and are able to produce 

 a good quality type of timber. Many of the swamps which were salt 

 raa^rshes originally have been sweetened by the erection of dykes so 

 that cranberry bogs eve producing on what at one time was ?/aste land. 



