Cape Cod and the Old colony . ock that are found far from theirparent beds. Such drift boulders are conspicu-ous on many parts of the Cape, especially onthe heights and slopes of the morainic are common on the great hill belt fromFalmouth to Sandwich and from Sandwich toOrleans, and on the inner or northern slopes ofthe latter section. This is what the glacialistcalls the ice-contact, that is the slope thatfaced the ice as it melted away in retreat. Bear-den* patches of great boulders occurin the hill forests of the Beebe estate west ofFalmouth village and such a bunching ofboulder
Cape Cod and the Old colony . ock that are found far from theirparent beds. Such drift boulders are conspicu-ous on many parts of the Cape, especially onthe heights and slopes of the morainic are common on the great hill belt fromFalmouth to Sandwich and from Sandwich toOrleans, and on the inner or northern slopes ofthe latter section. This is what the glacialistcalls the ice-contact, that is the slope thatfaced the ice as it melted away in retreat. Bear-den* patches of great boulders occurin the hill forests of the Beebe estate west ofFalmouth village and such a bunching ofboulders in Pocasset is locally known as theDevils Den. Enos rock on the Nauset mo-raine in Eastham is thirty-four feet long. Aboulder ten or twelve feet long lies by theroadside on the right as one approaches High-land Light and from it the adjacent hotel cot-tage is called The Rock.* From these sup-plies of the coarser drift must have been takenthe granite for exportation as described bythe annalist of Falmouth. Myriads of smaller. The Origin of the Cape 59 pieces lie in the gravels everywhere, migrantsfrom the region of the Merrimac, from allnorthern New England, and from the founda-tions of eastern Canada. The shortest journey on the Cape flashes onthe eye a vision of blue waters framed inforest green. Back from the ocean, nothingelse is so characteristic of the Cape as its lakes,and this is equally true of all of the Old Colonywhich lies in Plymouth County. Someonehas said that one could, in the town of Plym-outh, camp by a different lake every nightin the year. This can hardly be true, but ifcounty instead of town were named, it couldprobably be done. The topographic map,drawn with contours for altitude and showingthe coimtry on a scale of one inch to the mile,records one hundred and twenty-three lakesin the town of Plymouth and it is quite certainthat the topographer missed some of thesmaller ponds, hidden as they commonly are,by a complete encirclement of forest. On the Cape,
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