. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ffs crownedby pine groves, and full of circuitous lagoons and fertile islands; the TenMile River, daintily winding under the branches of great trees or rushingswiftly through the craggy glen at Hunts Mills. There is the broader Paw-tuxet upon which thousands of canoeists and boating enthusiasts enjoy thesummer days; and the lake-like Seekonk which will really be a lake whenthe dam at its narrow mouth shall have been built. These places havebeen free in a
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ffs crownedby pine groves, and full of circuitous lagoons and fertile islands; the TenMile River, daintily winding under the branches of great trees or rushingswiftly through the craggy glen at Hunts Mills. There is the broader Paw-tuxet upon which thousands of canoeists and boating enthusiasts enjoy thesummer days; and the lake-like Seekonk which will really be a lake whenthe dam at its narrow mouth shall have been built. These places havebeen free in all the past, and by the making of the Metropolitan Park System,may still in all the future be the breathing places and recreation grounds atthe doors of a great and ever increasing industrial population. Wisdomand humanity demand their preservation, and their harmonious joining inone grand chain as a magnificent possession for all posterity ;—a publicdomain in which the poorest of the people may gain delight and strengthand claim part ownership ;—a domain that all the wealth of kings could notcreate where nature had been less WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER AT DYERVILLE PARK 61
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