"Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at ; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at ; the wrist at ; and the sandy fist at ,—behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the , and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, like an athlete protecting her Bay,—boxing with north-east storms, and, ever and anon, heaving up her Atlantic adversary from the lap of earth,—ready to thrust forward her other fist, which keeps guard the while upon her breast at ."
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Henry David Thoreau, (1st edition, 1865; Wikisource text)
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