. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . clam bakes, and at every convenient rocky cove, par-ticularly near Mount Hope, the little cairns of stone,blackened by fire and enclosing beds of charred sea-weed, tell the story of a culinary pilgrimage. The shore cannot be closed to the wayfarer. Ac-cording to Rhode Island law every foot of the deviouscoast line that encloses tide water affords a public right-of-way, which no owner of adjacent property can refuseto recognise. One familiar illustration of the workingof this wise law is the Cliff Walk at Newpo
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . clam bakes, and at every convenient rocky cove, par-ticularly near Mount Hope, the little cairns of stone,blackened by fire and enclosing beds of charred sea-weed, tell the story of a culinary pilgrimage. The shore cannot be closed to the wayfarer. Ac-cording to Rhode Island law every foot of the deviouscoast line that encloses tide water affords a public right-of-way, which no owner of adjacent property can refuseto recognise. One familiar illustration of the workingof this wise law is the Cliff Walk at Newport, whichpasses through the magnificent grounds of the most ex-clusive property owners, who have made a virtue ofnecessity, and in most instances groom the v/alk tomake it correspond with its park-like surroundings. On the south-eastern end of Mount Hope Bay, wherethe channel of the Saconnet enters it, the quiet town ofTiverton reposes. Quiet—yet not by any means inert,for it has its own little fleet of vessels and a very re-spectable trade, for which its situation is admirably. From the Top of Pocanoket 127 adapted. Tiverton evidently rejoices that it is alive,for every August there is a celebration which in-cludes speeches, coloured fire-rockets, a parade andmuch music, to keep green the memory of the daywhen the place was founded. On three separate occas-ions, in three distinct Auo-usts, I have seen the lia^htsand the fireworks, and have been informed that Tivertonwas glorying in its foundation, so that it seems reasona-ble to infer that the custom has grown to be habitual. A town that can display such honest pride in its ownexistence is certainly worth a visit—unless the windchances to be in the quarter that will bring down theodours of an adjacent fish factory, than which nothingmore unsavoury has been imagined on earth since the seabirds removed the remains of the last leviathan. Leav-ing the fish factory aside, as we may do if the breezeblows away from us, Tiverton i
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