Cape Cod and the Old colony . talianvillas and English houses were replacing theold Cape cottages. Truly, in a recent summerafternoon in Truro, on a walk to the ancientcemetery, did the now venerable daughter of astill more venerable sea captain say, CapeCod aint what it used to be; its going downfast. The changes of the Civil War threw theyoung men into other than Cape coast trade took the population tothe south shore, small sloops and schoonersgave way to large craft, machinery displacedmen, and fishing concentrated in Boston,Gloucester and Provincetown. Emigrantspoured out
Cape Cod and the Old colony . talianvillas and English houses were replacing theold Cape cottages. Truly, in a recent summerafternoon in Truro, on a walk to the ancientcemetery, did the now venerable daughter of astill more venerable sea captain say, CapeCod aint what it used to be; its going downfast. The changes of the Civil War threw theyoung men into other than Cape coast trade took the population tothe south shore, small sloops and schoonersgave way to large craft, machinery displacedmen, and fishing concentrated in Boston,Gloucester and Provincetown. Emigrantspoured out to Maine, the Connecticut Valley,the Middle States, the Prairies and California. Often quoted, but deserving a place in everymemorial of old Cape days, no words will eversay more eloquently than these what that far-flung life was. They were spoken by in his Barnstable oration in 1839—Wherever, over the world, you see the starsand stripes floating, you may have good hopethat beneath them someone will be found who. Roads and Waterways 213 can tell you the soundings of Barnstable, orWellfleet, or Chatham harbor. AnotherCape writer cites as suitable to his nativeshores, Burkes tribute to old Yarmouth onthe North Sea—No sea but what is vexed bytheir fisheries, no climate that is not witnessto their toils. A shipmaster twenty years ago told a won-dering lone passenger of how he must sail bywatch and compass the tortuous and rockycourse on the return journey from lona toOban south of the Island of Mull. But nostem coast was perhaps ever, or anywhere,more hazardous than the sea borders aroundCape Cod. There is an average duration offog on this coast of forty-five days in the knows what this means who has spentweeks or months imder the Capes greatestlight and has heard the low roar of its fog-horn day and night. The tidal currents are variable, and the bot-toms rapidly change in a region where so muchsand is suppHed to the waves and readilyshifted to a prodig
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