Sandwich—­This town on the North side of the Cape is one of the old and original settlements and is on the banks of the Cape Cod canal.  It has extensive woodlands dotted with well stocked ponds and is very attractive to campers.

Bourne—­Sagamore Beach, within the confines of the town of Bourne, is on the north shore and is a pretentious cottage colony with two excellent hotels.  Golf links are adjacent and it has its own water system, community house and tennis courts.  Cataumet and Pocasset are parts of Bourne which border on Buzzards Bay as well as Monument Beach and the village of Buzzards Bay, itself.  These are typical bayside resorts where boating, bathing, fishing and golf are extensively indulged in.  The town is intersected by the Cape Cod canal and the traffic that flows through it passes in front of the summer colonies.

Martha’s Vineyard—­This is an off-shore island reached by a half-hour’s boat ride from Woods Hole.  A poet has said of it, “a little bit of Heaven dropped from out the sky one day” which aptly describes it.  Oak Bluffs, Edgartown.  Vineyard Haven, Tisbury, Chilmark and Gay Head are its principal villages.  The island presents all the best features of an ideal summer vacation spot away from the mainland, yet possessing all the essential features which go to make life comfortable.  Its hotels are many and excellent.

Nantucket—­Further at sea, a two and a half hours’ steamboat ride from Woods Hole.  Unique is a word that inadequately describes it.  All over the United States there are people who assert that there is no place like Nantucket on the face of the globe.  It has a large summer population and tourists are adequately cared for.  It has the most regular climate of any place along the New England coast, the temperature averaging 76 degrees during the summer months.  It is cooled by the Atlantic breezes.

Onset—­This is a busy and thriving summer resort located in a beautiful spot on upper Buzzards Bay.  It attracts many thousands of people during the summer months, who come to spend a few weeks, days, or the season there.  It is a cottage colony supplemented by hotels and boarding houses that fit the purses of all classes.

At some of these places, either on Cape Cod itself or the islands, every person can find conditions suited to his or her individual taste.

WELLFLEET

EDWARD L. SMITH

Cape Cod has many fine distinctions that make it stand out from a commonplace world and Wellfleet, as a town name, marks the Cape with a place-name known all over the globe, but in no other locality than on the coast of Barnstable Bay.  It is true that a misguided, homesick, and ill-advised denizen of the Cape, roaming the arid, inland sand wastes of Nebraska, foisted the name of “Wellfleet” on his townsite.  But as it has to date remained “unwept, unhonored and unsung,” so is it quite unknown to sailors or to the sea, being about fifteen hundred miles from salt water and an immeasurable distance from being appropriately named.