Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A horse-car still used on Block Island in 1916 rapid, and latterly many powerful electric engines havebeen made to take the place of steam engines on someof the great railroad systems.
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A PuriLan maiden Cape Cod CAPE COD thrusts out into the sea Uke a mansbended arm with the fist clenched. It extendseastward thirty-five miles, then northerly thirty more,and has an average width of about six miles. In theinterior the land rises to a height of two or three hun- 36 Cape Cod j7 dred feet. The Cape is composed almost entirely ofsand, not only on the surface, but to a great depth. Athin layer of soil overlays the sand, but there are manyholes and ruts in this weather-beaten garment, andat the extremity of the Cape the sand is entirely bare. Bartholomew Gosnold, who landed on the Cape in1602, gave it its present name because of the greatnumber of codfish he found in the adjacent waters.Various other names were bestowed on it, but noneheld except Gosnolds; and this, as the famous oldBoston parson. Cotton Mather, has said, it willnever lose till shoals of codfish be seen swimming onits highest hills. Trees do not flourish on the Cape, and such wood-lands as exist are apt to b

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