Cape Cod, new & old . wereamong the first on the Cape, and were — andstill are —• uniformly excellent. Whaling, cod-fishmg, turpentine gathered from the forests,and salt manufacturing brought good businessto the town for fifty years. Then, because ofthe abolition of duties on foreign salt and thedevelopment of source and supply in our owncountry, this industry ceased to be profitable.^Fishing; and shipbuilding came to an end withthe Civil War, the latter partly because of theexhaustion of the timber supply. The record of Yarmouth is an honorableone. Famous fishers of men and famous fish-ers of
Cape Cod, new & old . wereamong the first on the Cape, and were — andstill are —• uniformly excellent. Whaling, cod-fishmg, turpentine gathered from the forests,and salt manufacturing brought good businessto the town for fifty years. Then, because ofthe abolition of duties on foreign salt and thedevelopment of source and supply in our owncountry, this industry ceased to be profitable.^Fishing; and shipbuilding came to an end withthe Civil War, the latter partly because of theexhaustion of the timber supply. The record of Yarmouth is an honorableone. Famous fishers of men and famous fish-ers of the deep have both left their clean rec-ords, their self-respecting descendants, andtheir substantial houses. Worldly wealth hasdescended in many instances, and accounts forthe air of easy-going comfort in the place totell us of the past. And the treasure in heaven,for which this community so zealously labored,has also gathered interest, and still accrues tothe glory and the credit of the town. 1 See chap. Chapter VINEW INDUSTRIES AND OLD IN DENNIS THOUSANDS and thousands of years ago— so the fable runs — there was an enor-mous eagle, quite as enormous as the roe inSinbad the Sailors tale. He used to hoverover the South Shore of Cape Cod, and when-ever he saw little children playing, he wouldpounce down upon them and carry one awayin his terrible iron talons. Maushope was anIndian giant — gentle and huge. Unlike mostof the giants of folk-lore, he loved little boysand girls, and the onslaughts of the eagle en-raged him. He brooded and brooded over them,and one day as the eagle flapped away with ascreaming child in his claws, Maushope started INDUSTRIES IN DENNIS 73 to chase him. The bird flew out to sea, andthe giant strode after him. Farther and fartherflew the bird: deeper and deeper waded thegiant — but, of course, since he was a giant hecould wade into the very depths of the and by he came to Nantucket, which untilthat time had never been known t
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