One of the chief attractions in summer of the shore of Cape Cod, both on Buzzard’s Bay and on the outer southern coast, is the exquisite climate, not particularly bracing, but cool, and remarkably equable. The prevailing breeze is from the south-west, from off the Vineyard Sound, and the harshness of east winds is seldom felt. The water, too, is warmer by some twenty degrees than at Swampscott or Manchester, for example, and the sea-bathing, on that account, attracts a good many people. And although in landscape this region has nothing like the richness of the Beverly shore, it has, nevertheless, not a little rural beauty, with a wild, peculiar charm that is all its own. _F. Mitchell_ Copyright, 1883, by THE CENTURY CO. All rights reserved. Transcriber’s Notes New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Illustrations have been moved nearer to the text to which they refer. Perceived typographical errors have been silently corrected.