. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. sEWPORT ROCKS AND RESIDENCES LITTLE RHODYS VARIED FASCINATIONS It has often been said--and it is probably true—that no similar area in the United States is asdiversified as is Rhode Island, in landscape and contour, in foliage, in flora and fauna and in geologicalormation. From these facts it has come to pass that no State in the Union possesses greater diversityof opportunities for summer pastimes and recreation. Variety, indeed, appears to be the most
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. sEWPORT ROCKS AND RESIDENCES LITTLE RHODYS VARIED FASCINATIONS It has often been said--and it is probably true—that no similar area in the United States is asdiversified as is Rhode Island, in landscape and contour, in foliage, in flora and fauna and in geologicalormation. From these facts it has come to pass that no State in the Union possesses greater diversityof opportunities for summer pastimes and recreation. Variety, indeed, appears to be the most striking characteristic of the smallest of all the States. Itsindustries, its institutions, and its people are astonishingly varied. Its opinions, its occupations and allthe manifestations of its existence have been unusual and individual, through the years of its history.•Of all the American States. writes James Brice, -Rhode Island is that one that best deserves thestudy of the philosophic ^ 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
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