Cape Cod and the Old colony . e destiny,perhaps we cannot know. What stirs rs tothis observation is the record oi a blir ingsnowstorm that was falling around the u ly-flower explorers as they passed the Barnstable Harbor. Here between SandyNeck Light and the present Yarmouth Port,is a wide gateway inviting a mariner withsmall craft to quiet and well-protected watersbehind miles of barrier beach, and leading upwhere green meadows, laden orchards andgracious homes now mark the ancient settle-ments of Barnstable. If snow had not beencoming down during a particular half-hour inthe aft
Cape Cod and the Old colony . e destiny,perhaps we cannot know. What stirs rs tothis observation is the record oi a blir ingsnowstorm that was falling around the u ly-flower explorers as they passed the Barnstable Harbor. Here between SandyNeck Light and the present Yarmouth Port,is a wide gateway inviting a mariner withsmall craft to quiet and well-protected watersbehind miles of barrier beach, and leading upwhere green meadows, laden orchards andgracious homes now mark the ancient settle-ments of Barnstable. If snow had not beencoming down during a particular half-hour inthe afternoon of a December day, in this partof Cape Cod Bay, the beginnings of the OldColony, of the Bay State, of New England,might ha,ve been on Cape Cod, and sleepy oldBarnstable might have been the theater ofretrospect and rejoicing in the festive daysof 1920. At length, in the cold storm and dim lightof waning day, with frozen clothing and be-numbed fingers, they drew into the gatewaythat opened between Pier Head on their left. The Pilgrims Around the Bay 9 and Saquish Head on their right. Pier Headwas the outer end of Plymouth Beach, whoselong, narrow belt of sand, then more or lesswooded, they could perhaps follow southwardtoward the point where it springs from themainland north of the Pilgrim Hotel of , on their right, was a glacial hill, anisland in those days, not yet tied by its threadof sand to the hill of the Gurnet lights and thelong Duxbury Beach. They steered theircourse northward, past Saquish, and madetheir landing on Clarks Island. Rather too much has been said and writ-ten and painted about Plymouth Rock, or atleast not enough heed has been paid to ClarksIsland. This was the first landing place ofthe Pilgrims, if not exactly in Plymouth Har-bor, in the adjoining waters of Duxbury. Toomany good people jump on the rock, or pho-tograph their friends under its granite canopy,without knowing that there is a Clarks Islandor what happened there. The island,
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