The New England historical and genealogical register . 1881.] Cabo de Baxos. 49 CABO DE BAXOS: Or, the Place of Cape Cod in tue old Cartology. By the Rev. B. F. De Costa, of Xevr York City. IF the bold foreland knowu as Cape Cod could frame articulate speech,what a story its storm-swept shores might tell. It has looked outthrough scudding mists upon the enterprise, the hopes and fears of manynations. Histories have been eugulphed in its -naves and buried in itssands. Cape Cod, however, is simply the wreck of an old and more ex-tensive promontory. Even since the seventeenth century large portio
The New England historical and genealogical register . 1881.] Cabo de Baxos. 49 CABO DE BAXOS: Or, the Place of Cape Cod in tue old Cartology. By the Rev. B. F. De Costa, of Xevr York City. IF the bold foreland knowu as Cape Cod could frame articulate speech,what a story its storm-swept shores might tell. It has looked outthrough scudding mists upon the enterprise, the hopes and fears of manynations. Histories have been eugulphed in its -naves and buried in itssands. Cape Cod, however, is simply the wreck of an old and more ex-tensive promontory. Even since the seventeenth century large portions ofits coast have been devoured by the sea, while other portions have beeninvaded by the silicious drift which has changed fertile tracts into glister-ing saharas. At some distant period the cape was connected with the neighboringisles, though a portion of the islands themselves have now great shallows tell of islands that once rose above the waves. In theyear 1701 the *• Sloop IMary anchored under the lee of an inland of whichno
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