A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . Provincetown. On this breezy point, jutting out into the Atlantic, which a voyageralong the coast of the United States can hardly escape hitting, eitherin fair weather or foul, stands to-day the picturesque village of Prov-incetown, half buried always in sand, and at the proper season com- 1 The Relation of Captain Gosnolds Voyage, by Gabriel Ar
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . Provincetown. On this breezy point, jutting out into the Atlantic, which a voyageralong the coast of the United States can hardly escape hitting, eitherin fair weather or foul, stands to-day the picturesque village of Prov-incetown, half buried always in sand, and at the proper season com- 1 The Relation of Captain Gosnolds Voyage, by Gabriel Archer, in Purchas, vol. iv. 264 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. [Chap. pletely covered over with drying cod-fish. Gosnold and his people atfirst called this promontory Shoal Hope, but presently changed thename to Cape Cod. Champlain called it Cap Blanc (Cape White),four years later, because of the aspect which its sands gave it; ^ andin 1614 Captain John Smith named it Cape James ; but the nameCape Cod it has never lost. The captain and some of his companionslanded, and found pease, strawberries, and whortleberries, as yet un-ripe ; the woods were cypress, birch, witch-hazel, and beech — productswhich the visitor to the extremity of Cape Cod will now hardly find,by the most diligent search. Doubling the headland, they sailed for six days along the outer coast of the cape, — the back side as it is now called, — whichpast Cape the Northmen, it is supposed, had discovered six hundred years before, and named Wonder-strands. Certain points nowknown as dangerous shoals, but which were then peninsulas of firm land, the Concords crewcalled Tuckers Terror a
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