Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Trip Around Cape Cod: Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard, South Shore
T is the intention of this book to describe this Cape as it exists in time and space, putting into it such things as concern man, who is taught by history and observation Of nature many things of himself. There are three provinces, at least, on the globe, whose people are enthusiastically attached to their birth place, viz., Switzerland, Iceland, and Cape Cod. They are all lands, odd, strange, and in measure weird, austere, and full of gigantic nature-forces with which man must struggle in a Spartan temper, and life-long, to secure a living; full of variety, abounding in a beauty and even comfort of its own, and im pressing themselves Ou their people to form character; and they in turn, by their life and achievements of generations, imparting a certain reverence and sanctity to the land itself. Here lie some Of the reasons why this Cape, which has neither rich soil, the magnificent forests of the West, the luxuriant vegeta tion Of the South, attracts infallibly every artistic and poet mind, from the very start, and yet all are very slow to agree upon the reasons.
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