. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. vast numbers ofpleasure boats, from tiny canoes to great crowded excursion steamers areforever in the view. Rhode Island is famous for its boating facilities ofevery kind. The back country towns present many attractions. Scores of abandonedfarms, which until the advent of the trolley were as difficult of access as if theywere hundreds of miles away, have been bought by private clubs andindividuals for country estates, and there are many nooks and corners
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. vast numbers ofpleasure boats, from tiny canoes to great crowded excursion steamers areforever in the view. Rhode Island is famous for its boating facilities ofevery kind. The back country towns present many attractions. Scores of abandonedfarms, which until the advent of the trolley were as difficult of access as if theywere hundreds of miles away, have been bought by private clubs andindividuals for country estates, and there are many nooks and corners thatyet remain, like islands of wilderness, surrounded by the throbbing sea ofcivilization. The old South County in particular is a country of markedindividuality and charm, and its enthusiastic devotees have built many bunga-lows and camps along its bay and ocean fronts and beside the still watersof its forest bordered lakes. The chief rivers of the State are the Blackstone, the Pawtuxet, the WoodRiver, the Usquepaug, the Queens River and the Pawcatuck. They forma network of waterways, by which, with slight carries, the State may be. FROM THE CLIFF AT ! SIKINO
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