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| Keywords: bookid:newenglandhumani00joh bookidnewenglandhumani00joh bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:johnson__clifton__1865_1940 bookauthorjohnsonclifton18651940 bookpublisher:new_york__the_macmillan_company bookpublishernewyorkthemacmillancompany bookpublisher:_london__macmillan_and_co___limited bookpublisherlondonmacmillanandcolimited bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:65 bookleafnumber65 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana outdoor monochrome bookid:newenglandhumani00joh bookidnewenglandhumani00joh bookyear:1917 bookyear1917 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:johnson__clifton__1865_1940 bookauthorjohnsonclifton18651940 bookpublisher:new_york__the_macmillan_company bookpublishernewyorkthemacmillancompany bookpublisher:_london__macmillan_and_co___limited bookpublisherlondonmacmillanandcolimited provincetown cape cod capecod massachusetts bookcontributor:the_library_of_congress bookcontributorthelibraryofcongress booksponsor:sloan_foundation booksponsorsloanfoundation bookleafnumber:65 bookleafnumber65 bookcollection:library_of_congress bookcollectionlibraryofcongress bookcollection:americana bookcollectionamericana outdoor monochrome Identifier: newenglandhumani00joh Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: incetown is a desert of sand dunes.These drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of emptying their shoes at each step. It is stated in an old history that wheeled vehicleswere such a rarity in the place that *A lad who under- 46 New England stood navigating the ocean much better than landtravel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street,expressed surprise at his being able to drive so straightwithout the assistance of a rudder. Beach grass has been planted by the government onsome of the dunes to hold the sand in place. This grass Text Appearing After Image: Province town at the tip end of Cape Cod has an affiliation for sand, and you can stick one ofits coarse wiry tufts in anywhere, and it will grow. Ifthe grass is methodically planted the shifting dunesare fast bound so that the winds assail them in vain. It is an interesting fact that Cape Cod was the firstland the Pilgrims saw after a voyage of more than nineweeks from England. On Saturday, November 21,1620, the Mayflower cast anchor in Provincetownharbor. A party went ashore that same day for wood Cape Cod 47 and fresh water, and on Monday some of the womenlanded to wash clothes. Wednesday, sixteen of the men under Miles Standishset off to explore the country and were gone two days.They saw at a distance five or six natives and a dog,and they found several heaps of corn buried in theground. When they returned, two of them bore abasket of the corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a sec Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: newenglandhumani00joh Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: incetown is a desert of sand dunes.These drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of emptying their shoes at each step. It is stated in an old history that wheeled vehicleswere such a rarity in the place that *A lad who under- 46 New England stood navigating the ocean much better than landtravel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street,expressed surprise at his being able to drive so straightwithout the assistance of a rudder. Beach grass has been planted by the government onsome of the dunes to hold the sand in place. This grass Text Appearing After Image: Province town at the tip end of Cape Cod has an affiliation for sand, and you can stick one ofits coarse wiry tufts in anywhere, and it will grow. Ifthe grass is methodically planted the shifting dunesare fast bound so that the winds assail them in vain. It is an interesting fact that Cape Cod was the firstland the Pilgrims saw after a voyage of more than nineweeks from England. On Saturday, November 21,1620, the Mayflower cast anchor in Provincetownharbor. A party went ashore that same day for wood Cape Cod 47 and fresh water, and on Monday some of the womenlanded to wash clothes. Wednesday, sixteen of the men under Miles Standishset off to explore the country and were gone two days.They saw at a distance five or six natives and a dog,and they found several heaps of corn buried in theground. When they returned, two of them bore abasket of the corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a sec Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: newenglandhumani00joh Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: incetown is a desert of sand dunes.These drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of emptying their shoes at each step. It is stated in an old history that wheeled vehicleswere such a rarity in the place that *A lad who under- 46 New England stood navigating the ocean much better than landtravel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street,expressed surprise at his being able to drive so straightwithout the assistance of a rudder. Beach grass has been planted by the government onsome of the dunes to hold the sand in place. This grass Text Appearing After Image: Province town at the tip end of Cape Cod has an affiliation for sand, and you can stick one ofits coarse wiry tufts in anywhere, and it will grow. Ifthe grass is methodically planted the shifting dunesare fast bound so that the winds assail them in vain. It is an interesting fact that Cape Cod was the firstland the Pilgrims saw after a voyage of more than nineweeks from England. On Saturday, November 21,1620, the Mayflower cast anchor in Provincetownharbor. A party went ashore that same day for wood Cape Cod 47 and fresh water, and on Monday some of the womenlanded to wash clothes. Wednesday, sixteen of the men under Miles Standishset off to explore the country and were gone two days.They saw at a distance five or six natives and a dog,and they found several heaps of corn buried in theground. When they returned, two of them bore abasket of the corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a sec Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: newenglandhumani00joh Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: incetown is a desert of sand dunes.These drifting sandhills have encountered patches ofwoodland in places, and covered the trees to their verytops. So lonely and desolate is the region that fewpeople visit it, and there are natives of the town ofmature years who have never crossed it to the othershore, less than three miles distant. The sand drifts like snow, and the Provincetownhouses were formerly built on piles in order that thedriving sand might pass under them. A traveller in1849 was told that the young ladies had a dexterousway of emptying their shoes at each step. It is stated in an old history that wheeled vehicleswere such a rarity in the place that *A lad who under- 46 New England stood navigating the ocean much better than landtravel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street,expressed surprise at his being able to drive so straightwithout the assistance of a rudder. Beach grass has been planted by the government onsome of the dunes to hold the sand in place. This grass Text Appearing After Image: Province town at the tip end of Cape Cod has an affiliation for sand, and you can stick one ofits coarse wiry tufts in anywhere, and it will grow. Ifthe grass is methodically planted the shifting dunesare fast bound so that the winds assail them in vain. It is an interesting fact that Cape Cod was the firstland the Pilgrims saw after a voyage of more than nineweeks from England. On Saturday, November 21,1620, the Mayflower cast anchor in Provincetownharbor. A party went ashore that same day for wood Cape Cod 47 and fresh water, and on Monday some of the womenlanded to wash clothes. Wednesday, sixteen of the men under Miles Standishset off to explore the country and were gone two days.They saw at a distance five or six natives and a dog,and they found several heaps of corn buried in theground. When they returned, two of them bore abasket of the corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a sec Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. | ||||
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