Cape Cod, new & old . The whole bandseems to have been completely obliterated —swallowed up forever by the congregation ofthe Lords people. It was in the beginningof the nineteenth century, however, that agreat storm shifted the sands near ScussetNeck and revealed traces of what might haveonce been a French settlement. Here it was,in all probability, that the unfortunate Acad-ians had gathered; near the harbor where theycould look out over the wide waste of waterthat separated them from all that they helddear — from Grand Pre and the noble pathetic folk, doomed to live and finally todi
Cape Cod, new & old . The whole bandseems to have been completely obliterated —swallowed up forever by the congregation ofthe Lords people. It was in the beginningof the nineteenth century, however, that agreat storm shifted the sands near ScussetNeck and revealed traces of what might haveonce been a French settlement. Here it was,in all probability, that the unfortunate Acad-ians had gathered; near the harbor where theycould look out over the wide waste of waterthat separated them from all that they helddear — from Grand Pre and the noble pathetic folk, doomed to live and finally todie, among a hostile people: foreigners, igno-rant of the language about them; Romanistswithout a priest — their homesickness anddespair are better told by Longfellow in his sadand gentle story of Evangeline. But we,to-day, untangling the strong, plain threadsthat made up the warp and woof of simplePuritan life in Bourne, pause a moment as ourfingers touch this solitary silken strand — sorudely broken, long Chapter IIISANDWICH—THE OLDEST CAPE TOWN SANDWICH, Yarmouth, and Barnstableall date their incorporation from 1639, butSandwich stubbornly insists that she is theoldest of the three. And she is right. Although, as explained in the previous chap-ter, there had been a trading-post establishedon the southern shore of the Manomet Riverin 1627, yet there was no English settlementon the Cape until April 3, 1637, when ten menfrom Saugus were magnanimously given per-mission by the court at Plymouth to havethe liberty to view a place to sit down in, andhave sufficient land for threescore is rather amusing to hear of liberty to sit SANDWICH 23 down granted to a people who, from the be-ginning of their history, have shown anythingbut a desire to sit down, but rather a mostdetermined disposition to range from pole topole, either by sea or land. However, theseten men,—perhaps glad to get up fromPlymouth, — after hunting around a littlewhile, selected a place
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