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educated to the necessity of protection from fire and are beginning 

 to realize that fire does damage to the soil as well as destroying 

 the forest cover. The Ooramonweaith has purchased e large tract of 

 land in Sandwich and Bourne which is to he developed into a State 

 Forest. In addition the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has planted 

 a number of reforestation lots situated in Wellfleet, Brewster, 

 Ys.rmouth, Dennis, Sandv/ich, Barnstable and Felraouth. The success 

 of these numerous lots has proven beyond a doubt that the soil is 

 capable of producing good timber. With the aid of man in the 

 suppression of fires, timber of merchantable quality can be grown, 

 since many of these lots were planted in sheer sand and have grown 

 very well in spite of that handicap. Province lands in Frovincetown 

 have proven conclusively that through the use of trees we can expect 

 to hold the sand from entirely covering towns on the Cape and that 

 these same trees will grow there even under the most adverse condi- 

 tions. 



Topography. 

 Barnstable County has very few elevations of over 200 

 feet. From this elevation it slopes to sea level. Telegraph Hill 

 in Bourne is called the highest point on the Cape, with a,n elevation 

 of 200 feet. The entire county is well interspersed with ponds, a 

 few swamps and many streams. There are cedar sv;amps in Dennis 

 Ye.rmouth, Barnstable and Mashpee. The cedar in these swamps shows 

 growth from eight to eighteen or tv.-enty inches diameter. Some of 

 the larger rivers in Barnstable County, Bass River, Pamet River, 

 Santuit River, Mashpee River, Ohilds River and numerous other smaller 



