. New England; a human interest geographical reader. incetown is a desert of sand drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of empt
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. incetown is a desert of sand drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of emptying their shoes at each step. It is stated in an old history that wheeled vehicleswere such a rarity in the place that *A lad who under- 46 New England stood navigating the ocean much better than landtravel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street,expressed surprise at his being able to drive so straightwithout the assistance of a rudder. Beach grass has been planted by the government onsome of the dunes to hold the sand in place. This grass. Province town at the tip end of Cape Cod has an affiliation for sand, and you can stick one ofits coarse wiry tufts in anywhere, and it will grow. Ifthe grass is methodically planted the shifting dunesare fast bound so that the winds assail them in vain. It is an interesting fact that Cape Cod was the firstland the Pilgrims saw after a voyage of more than nineweeks from England. On Saturday, November 21,1620, the Mayflower cast anchor in Provincetownharbor. A party went ashore that same day for wood Cape Cod 47 and fresh water, and on Monday some of the womenlanded to wash clothes. Wednesday, sixteen of the men under Miles Standishset off to explore the country and were gone two saw at a distance five or six natives and a dog,and they found several heaps of corn buried in theground. When they returned, two of them bore abasket of the corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad
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