Copyright 1897 by Charles F. Swift
Yarmouth: Register Publishing Company.
Read this historical narrative. A book that is itself a part of history.
Cape Cod, was originally just the extreme end of the county of Barnstable.
A history beginning with the signing of the compact on the Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor, resistance to persecution for religious opinions, resistance to taxation without representation, and the Revolutionary struggle.
There is a review of topography and natural features; the fresh-water ponds and flora.
Bartholomew Gosnold and his companions were not the first to discover Cape Cod in 1602. It had previously been explored by Europeans. And Northmen visited the coast 5 centuries before.
“The dunes, or sand-hills, which are often nearly quite barren of vegetation, and of snowy whiteness, forcibly attract the attention on account of their peculiarity. As we approaced the extremity of the Cape, the sand and the barrenness increase, and in not a few places it would need only a party of Deouin Arabs to cross the traveller's path, to make him feel that he was in the depths of an Arabian or Lybian desert.” -Dr. Hitchcock.
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