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and modeiS of living which characterized their fathers ” i 
which made me think that they were^ after all, very 
much like all the rest of the world ; — and it added that 
this Tvas “ a resemblance, which, at this day, will con¬ 
stitute no impeachment of either their virtue or taste ” ; 
which remark proves to me that the writer was one with 
the rest of tliem. No people ever lived by cursing their 
fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have 
been to them. But it must be confessed that ours was old 
authority, and probably they have changed all that now. 
Our route was along the Bay side, through Barnstable, 
Yarmouth, Dennis, and Brewster, to Orleans, with a 
range of low hills on our right, running down the Cape. 
The weather was not favorable for wayside views, but 
we made the most of such glimpses of land and water as 
we could get through the rain. The country was, for 
the most part, bare, or with only a little scrubby wood 
left on the hills. We noticed in Yarmouth — and, if I 
do not mistake, in Dennis — large tracts where pitch- 
pines were planted four or five years before. They were 
in rows, as they appeared when we were abreast of them, 
and, excepting that there were extensive vacant spaces, 
seemed to be doing remarkably well. This, we were 
told, was the only use to which such tracts could be prof¬ 
itably put. Every higher eminence had a pole set up 
on it, with an old storm-coat or sail tied to it, for a signal, 
that those on the south side of the 'Cape, for instance, 
might know when the Boston packets had arrived on the 
north. It appeared as if this use must absorb the 
greater part of the old clothes of the Cape, leaving but 
few rags for the peddlers. The wind-mills on the hills, — 
large weather-stained octagonal structures, — and the 
«alt-works scattered all along the shore, with their 
