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Excerpt from Cape Cod
During the last thirty years, many of the more remote and isolated sections of New England have become popular with summer tourists and cottagers. Cape Cod has shared in this invasion from visitors and yet has maintained, to a large extent, its natural out lines of landscape and many of its primitive customs. Groups of cottages have been built along the coast where formerly was only a sandy beach without any Sign of human life. The hamlets and villages of fifty years ago Truro, Chatham, Provincetown, Yar mouth - are now active towns, reaping commercial benefits from tourists. In spite of such changes, the aspects of nature and the traits of the native inhabit ants are still akin to those described by Thoreau, half a century ago, in his graphic narrative, Cape Cod.
In a characteristic style, direct and vivid, he stated at the beginning the purpose of his excursions and the routes that were followed: Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two - thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October, 1849, another the succeeding June, and another to Truro in July, 18 5 5; the first and last time with a single companion.
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