Cape Cod and the Old colony . de for thepossible bias of personal impressions. The winter of the settlement is thought tohave been mild, with little snow, otherwise thelittle community might not have buried theirdead as they did on Coles Hill, or have carriedon so effectively the building of their storms would come, though not perhapsin their lifetime, a winter uproar, as in 1815,around the Buzzards Bay shores, when salthouses were destroyed, trees killed by saltoverflow into fresh swamps, springs and wellsmade salt where not directly reached by theflood, and the tide eight feet a
Cape Cod and the Old colony . de for thepossible bias of personal impressions. The winter of the settlement is thought tohave been mild, with little snow, otherwise thelittle community might not have buried theirdead as they did on Coles Hill, or have carriedon so effectively the building of their storms would come, though not perhapsin their lifetime, a winter uproar, as in 1815,around the Buzzards Bay shores, when salthouses were destroyed, trees killed by saltoverflow into fresh swamps, springs and wellsmade salt where not directly reached by theflood, and the tide eight feet above the com-mon levels; or like the storm a century earlierwhen the Indians dug a tunnel through thesnow in Eastham that they might carry thebody of their beloved pastor, the ReverendSamuel Treat, to its rest. But commonly nature does not put on hersternest moods on the Cape, save at the seaborder, where every winters winds and waveslash the shore—and raw and biting blasts la-den with sand sweep across the open fields, and. The Environment of the Sea 263 from earliest times have taught the Cape dwel-ler to build his house low, planted in a hollowor behind a forest, with his apple trees andgardens. The climate is oceanic, and much is com-pressed into that rather scientific word—re-freshing siimmers, and moderate cold in win-ter. The Wellfieet oysterman, truly, no doubt,told Thoreau that no ice ever formed on theback of the Cape, or not more than once in acentury, and but little snow lay there. The greatest thickness of ice on the pondsback of Provincetown is about nine inches, andin some winters there is no ice harvest at were eight inches on a small pond belowMashpee Lake in the winter just passed, butin the previous winter, which was cold every-where in our northern states, the Cape was notoverlooked, for there were twenty-four inchesof ice on Mashpee Lake, and automobilesfreely roamed upon its surface. Nor must it be supposed that summer heatnever oppresses. Ev
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