Cape Cod and the Old colony . ames and some villages have descrip-tive designations, as in Forest Dale in Sand-wich and Osterville—Oysterville—in Barn-stable. According to Freeman, Grand Islandwas once Oyster Island and the settlement wasOyster Island village. A flag-bordered lakeletin North Truro gave to this snug village theearly name of Pondsville. A hole, being ashort word for a narrow passage swept byruns of the tide, gives us appropriately a namefor one of the Capes frequented harbor vil-lages, Woods Hole. Unless we except shore forms no naturalfeatures put such a profuse assortment ofna
Cape Cod and the Old colony . ames and some villages have descrip-tive designations, as in Forest Dale in Sand-wich and Osterville—Oysterville—in Barn-stable. According to Freeman, Grand Islandwas once Oyster Island and the settlement wasOyster Island village. A flag-bordered lakeletin North Truro gave to this snug village theearly name of Pondsville. A hole, being ashort word for a narrow passage swept byruns of the tide, gives us appropriately a namefor one of the Capes frequented harbor vil-lages, Woods Hole. Unless we except shore forms no naturalfeatures put such a profuse assortment ofnames on the map as the lakes and names are derived from their size andshape. In Great South Pond in Plymouth wefind recorded both size and position. Thereis also Great Pond in Barnstable, known nowto the tourist, more takingly perhaps, as We-quaket. Eastham and Wellfieet each has itsGreat Pond. The name Long Pond solved thenaming problem in all parts of the Old has its example, likewise Falmouth,. ?^^•^^ A PROVINCETOWN ALLEY Old Colony Names and Towns 107 drawing its water supply from the lake thatstretches its waters and its bordering slopesfar back into the great Falmouth Long Pond which is the largest freshwater on the Cape lies between Brewster andHarwich. Wellfieet has two Long Ponds,though neither deserves the name, and Barn-stable, Bourne and Yarmouth have each one. A triple group of beautiful kettle-hole watersgives us Triangle, from its shape, Lawrence,from an old family, and Spectacle Pond, adescriptive name. Falmouth also has a Spec-tacle Pond. One of the Wellfieet Long Pondsis grouped with five others showing a sufficientassortment of naming motives—Gull, Higgins,Herring, Newcomb, and Round Ponds. Herring ponds, drained each by a HerringRiver, we find in Wellfieet and has its Herring River, and MonumetRiver in Bourne drains Great and Little Her-ring Ponds in Plymouth. Eel River in thelatter town recalls o
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