Cape Cod and the Old colony . soil in the interior, and in notrivial measure on the bare faces of the seacliffs. It rushed up these slopes or along them,removing loose material, and has on the eastcoast in many places, built sand hills at theircrests on the great foundation of glacial de-posits. These are, nevertheless, the lesserworks of the winds. The real fields of sand dunes are in the Prov-ince lands beyond High Head, and extendingfrom the crescent of Provincetown northwardto the open sea; down the long stretches ofNauset and Monomoy, embracing half theouter length of the Cape, and for mi
Cape Cod and the Old colony . soil in the interior, and in notrivial measure on the bare faces of the seacliffs. It rushed up these slopes or along them,removing loose material, and has on the eastcoast in many places, built sand hills at theircrests on the great foundation of glacial de-posits. These are, nevertheless, the lesserworks of the winds. The real fields of sand dunes are in the Prov-ince lands beyond High Head, and extendingfrom the crescent of Provincetown northwardto the open sea; down the long stretches ofNauset and Monomoy, embracing half theouter length of the Cape, and for miles onSandy Neck, between Cape Cod Bay and thegreat marshes of Barnstable. Minor stretchesof sand dune run out from Town Neck inSandwich, on the Falmouth beaches, and onvarious other Cape Cod shores as well as onthe long barrier beaches of Plymouth andDuxbury. Of greatest extent and interest arethe dune fields of the Province lands, for herethe winds and the waves have been whollyand alone responsible for reclaiming from the. The Changing Shoreline 89 ocean the ten square miles of the Cape thatlie beyond High Head in Truro. We have followed the currents as theyshifted the sands of the east shore northwardand westward to form the great hooked spitthat incloses the harbor of a shoal develops, then emerges a beach,and the sand quickly drying under sun andwind is picked up and thrown into barrier beaches become dune belts andwhen such barriers are joined to the land, asin the filling of Race Run, the migrating sandsretreat upon the adjoining grounds that lieinshore. At first on the tip of the Cape, there wereno adjoining lands and we may picture asingle curving beach ridge thrown out beyondthe older glacial foreland, with dune hills likethose of Nauset or Sandy Neck at the presenttime. But successive bars and developingbeaches were built outside of the southern andprimitive beach, and by those various growths,the outer cape, which is narrow at East Har
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