Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . here the trim,, fast-anchored houses stand, fearless ofwind or wave. Thoreau says : Generally the old-fashionedand unpainted houses on the Cape looked more comfortableas well as picturesque than the modern and more pretentiousones, which were less in harmony with the scenery, andseemed less firmly planted. Cape Cod houses, nicely painted, with their half-dozentypical, well-whitewashed outhouses and tight board fences,picturesquely dotted along the hillsides, fall pleasantly uponthe eye, especially toward tlie sunsetting, and make a prettylandscap
Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . here the trim,, fast-anchored houses stand, fearless ofwind or wave. Thoreau says : Generally the old-fashionedand unpainted houses on the Cape looked more comfortableas well as picturesque than the modern and more pretentiousones, which were less in harmony with the scenery, andseemed less firmly planted. Cape Cod houses, nicely painted, with their half-dozentypical, well-whitewashed outhouses and tight board fences,picturesquely dotted along the hillsides, fall pleasantly uponthe eye, especially toward tlie sunsetting, and make a prettylandscape picture. Thev remind one of the little walledcities of Palestine that used to illustrate the Sunday-schoolbooks years ago. Sometimes when the hollows are reposing in soft sunshine, GEOLGGICALLY COXSIDERED. 10 i the bleak northwest winds are sweeping over the hills andplains requiring pea-jacket and mittens to keep father had sheltered valleys and little nooks here andthere aboul his ••farm wiiere he worked in shirt sleeves. CLAY AND HIGHI LIGHTHOUSE FROM THE KKACH. most cver\- sunny day of the year. The same peculiarity oflongitudinal hoik-ws prevails in Cornwall, called thereCoombs, but with much greater fertility of soil and exub-erance of vegetation. Bare, .ind .t5 this norlhwestern countv mav be, it is enlivened bythe numerous and beautiful coombs or valleys, which open into it, and whichnearly all pre-erve an absolutely straight course east and west from their oii-in inthe moorlands to the sea. Few scenes of the simpler tind remain better impressedon the memory than the prospect down one of these tranquil ^ Mcnvalc. Gales from the west are vi(horizontal, setting the gra\-e:the salt from the ocean acrns-is generally milr!. Snow an lent, bending the trees nearlytonus at angles, and carryingthe country; yet the climate1 ice and the gloomy fogs of 204 TRURO—CAPE COD. London are unknown. Though lying between fifly andfifty-
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