=Stony Brook Mill=, 100-101 =Storms=, 15, _28-29_, 40, 59, 64 =Thoreau, Henry David=, 54, 57, 58, 69, 71, _72_, 109 =Tides=, 15 =Topography=, 24-31, 36-41, 59, 76, 80-81, 101, 102 =Town crier=, _71_ =Trails=, 96, _97_, 103, 104 =Transportation=, 87 =Truro=, 24, 61, 64, 69, 76, 104 =Turner, C. E.=, _50_ =_Ulysses_=, _60-61_ =Upper Cape=, 24, 88 =Wampanoag Indians=, _32-33_, 45, 54, 106 =Washington, George=, 65 =Water sports=, 92 =Weather=, 86-87 =Wellfleet=, 30, 54, 69, 93, 103; topography, 24, 101; whaling, 48, 58 =Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary=, 103 =Whales=, _48_, _58_, 80, _94-95_ =Whaling=, _48-49_, 53, 58, 104 =_Whydah_=, 59, 61 =Wildflowers=, _82-83_ =Windmills=, _47_, _56-57_, _101_, 102 =Wireless telegraphy=, 28, _78-79_, 97, 103 =Woodlands=, 31, 46 =Yarmouth=, 61 [Illustration: _Sharp-tailed sparrow_] =_Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_= Finch, Robert, 1943- Cape Cod: its natural and cultural history: a Guide to Cape Cod National Seashore. Massachusetts / by Robert Finch; produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. p. cm.—(Official National Park handbook, Cape Cod National Seashore; handbook 148) Includes index. 1. Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.)—Guidebooks. I. United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications. II. Title. III. Series: Handbook (United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications); 148. F72.C3F55 1993 917.44920443-dc20 92-40414 CIP Supt. of Docs, no.: 129.9/5: 148 ISBN 0-912627-56-5 ⚝ GPO: 1997—417-646/40503 Printed on recycled paper Reprint 1997 National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior The National Park Service expresses its appreciation to all those persons who made the preparation and production of this handbook possible. The Service especially thanks Eastern National Park and Monument Association and The Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore for their financial support of this publication. All photos and artwork not credited below come from the files of Cape Cod National Seashore. Some materials are restricted against commercial reproduction. The book was designed by Richard Sheaff. John Arsenault 95 whale watchers Frank Balthis, 106 _Mayflower_ Tony Bonanno 62-63 Nauset C. G. Station, 104 rowboats Tom Cawley, 43 sea-lavender and terrapin, 66-67 snowy egret, ruddy turnstone, and willet, 82-83 nightshade, heather, beach plum, cactus, dewberry, St. Johnswort, bellflower, mayflower, aster, laurel, star-flower, and cypress spurge Concord Free Public Library 73 Thoreau Donald Demers 38-39 Atwood-Higgins art, mortise R. R. Donnelley GeoSystems 87 map, 88-89 Steve Dunwell back cover, 17, 19, 22, 68, 90 girl, 93 fisherman, 107 Nantucket Roger Everett 66-67 dunlin, spotted sandpiper, merganser, yellowlegs, canvasback, eider, green-backed heron, sanderlings