. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ^ NASMUCH as Rhode Island is so very densely populated? and is surrounded by such very rich and populous States,It is not to be wondered at that her beaches and herwave-sw^ept rocks, her lakes and her hills, and the windingshores of her glorious great bay furnish inspiration forscores of thousands who make their summer homes amidher Island is milder and less variable in climate than the other NewEngland States, although there is considerable
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ^ NASMUCH as Rhode Island is so very densely populated? and is surrounded by such very rich and populous States,It is not to be wondered at that her beaches and herwave-sw^ept rocks, her lakes and her hills, and the windingshores of her glorious great bay furnish inspiration forscores of thousands who make their summer homes amidher Island is milder and less variable in climate than the other NewEngland States, although there is considerable difference between the northernand the southern portions, and as a consequence, much of the wild foliage,especially of South County, is of a distinctively southern type not else-where found in New England. Here, however, it grows beside the char-acteristic foliage of the North, some of which finds its southern limit inRhode Island. There is a splendid assortment of the beautiful things of nature; broadglistening beaches, and wild, wooded hills, rocky cliffs overhanging the 3 r#3jr-T:* m. ocean, hundreds of miles of bay shores, winding, rushing rivers, and densetangled forests where the advent of man is as yet scarcely known. There are many lakes and there are barren sand dunes; there are exquisiteand fashionable summer places that vie with any in the world, and there aresecluded camps where nature is untroubled in her luxuriance. Although Rhode Island is growing in density of population faster thanany other state of the Union, she nevertheless has a larger proportion ofwooded area than any other, and almost within sight of her bustling cities,there are trails through the tanglewood that have survived in much of theirprimitive wildness, since the days when the red men made them. There arequaint hamlets, lovely farms and everything that is oldest and newest in ourcivilization. There are splendid modern roads that give ready access to
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