Cape Cod, new & old . Chapter II BOURNE AND THE CAPE COD CANAL THE town of Bourne, from which thefamous canal starts, marks the geographi-cal beginning of Cape Cod. Strangers in thispart of the country are frequently puzzled bythe colloquial use of the word town, foreach Cape town — of which there are fifteen—? usually contains half a dozen or even adozen small hamlets within its confines, eachone with its separate name, post-office, railwaystation, and distinctive personality. Thesesmaller settlements might very easily be called towns, but the local way is prettier: theyare neighborhoods. Maj
Cape Cod, new & old . Chapter II BOURNE AND THE CAPE COD CANAL THE town of Bourne, from which thefamous canal starts, marks the geographi-cal beginning of Cape Cod. Strangers in thispart of the country are frequently puzzled bythe colloquial use of the word town, foreach Cape town — of which there are fifteen—? usually contains half a dozen or even adozen small hamlets within its confines, eachone with its separate name, post-office, railwaystation, and distinctive personality. Thesesmaller settlements might very easily be called towns, but the local way is prettier: theyare neighborhoods. Major-General LeonardWood was born in Pocasset; the yellow house— square and vine-clad, on its wide lawn —?. BOURNE AND THE CANAL 5 stands at the crossroads. And Pocasset is aneighborhood in the town of Bourne. So alsoBuzzards Bay — from which the canal ac-tually starts — is a neighborhood in the townof Bourne. The name of Buzzards Bay is perhaps bet-ter known than that of the mother Bay is a railroad center and a sum-mer resort. It is at this point that the firstCape coolness strikes through the train,rumbling down from Boston laden with sum-mer folk and heat; it is from here that carsconnect for Provincetown and Chatham, andto and from Woods Hole; it is here thatJoseph Jefferson and Grover Cleveland hadtheir summer homes, — Crows Nest andGray Gables, — as well as a score of othereminent men before and since. But in spite ofits prominence, Buzzards Bay is only a smallportion of Bourne, which existed before therewas any Joseph Jefferson, or any railroad tothe Cape, or any canal. As you glance out from your car window, orfrom your flying automobile, even if you 6 CAP
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