What to see in America . ll-directed volleys ata large British foraging party and retired. But he lingereduntil the British cavalrymen were close at hand, then gal-loped down a path which was so precipitous that not oneof them dared make such a hazardous descent. The martyr hero, Nathan Hale, was born at Coventry in1755. When the Revolution began he at once joined thearmy and soon attained the rank of Captain. Up in the northwestern part of the state is Bear Mountain,the highest point in Connecticut, with an altitude of 2355feet. The name of the state is a combination of Indian wordswhich mean
What to see in America . ll-directed volleys ata large British foraging party and retired. But he lingereduntil the British cavalrymen were close at hand, then gal-loped down a path which was so precipitous that not oneof them dared make such a hazardous descent. The martyr hero, Nathan Hale, was born at Coventry in1755. When the Revolution began he at once joined thearmy and soon attained the rank of Captain. Up in the northwestern part of the state is Bear Mountain,the highest point in Connecticut, with an altitude of 2355feet. The name of the state is a combination of Indian wordswhich mean the river with the long tide. This phraserefers to the tidal rise and fall of the water in New Englandslongest river as far as the Enfield Falls above nicknames for the state are the Land of SteadyHabits and the Wooden Nutmeg State. The latter wasbestowed because of its inhabitants having such a reputationfor shrewdness that they were jocosely accused of palming offwooden nutmegs on unsuspecting Sheep near Newport VI Rhode Island Little Rhody is the smallest state in the Union, and it isthe most thickly populated. There are more than five hun-dred persons to the square mile, while Nevada has less thanone to the square mile. The settlement of the state wasbegun in 1636 by that famous Puritan preacher, RogerWilliams, whose preaching at Salem had aroused suchopposition that he had been banished from the escape his persecutors he left home at night in midwinterand fled alone through the deep snow to his Indian friend,Massasoit, with whom he stayed until spring. Then he andfive of his Salem flock made their way to Rhode Island andstarted a settlement which they called Providence. This isnow the capital of the state, and the largest city in NewEngland except Boston. The sea cuts deeply into RhodeIsland, and there are good harbors near the falls on thestreams that empty into the upper end of Narragansett combination of abundant water power
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