The past and the present . by rail with the Providence andStouington road and by steamers with Co-nanicut Park, Narragansett Pier and New-port, it boasts peculiar advantages. It hasits hotel, boarding houses, fine residences,and Cold Spring beach. One of the finest BAY AND SHORES. 53 drives in the country is by the road fromWickford to Narragansett Pier. The Cedars are redolent of leisure andpleasure. North Kingstown people, espe-cially the gallant young men and cherry-cheeked maidens of the first families, wouldnot hold us guiltless if we should neglect toset in due honor their favorite summe
The past and the present . by rail with the Providence andStouington road and by steamers with Co-nanicut Park, Narragansett Pier and New-port, it boasts peculiar advantages. It hasits hotel, boarding houses, fine residences,and Cold Spring beach. One of the finest BAY AND SHORES. 53 drives in the country is by the road fromWickford to Narragansett Pier. The Cedars are redolent of leisure andpleasure. North Kingstown people, espe-cially the gallant young men and cherry-cheeked maidens of the first families, wouldnot hold us guiltless if we should neglect toset in due honor their favorite summer re-sort for clambakes, shore dinners and sweet sett Bay on the west, lying between theisland of Rhode Island and the townshipsof North and South Kingstown, and meas-ures about nine miles in length by one milein breadth, with beautifully irregular shores,pleasingly undulating surface, and fertilesoil. It is nearly divided into two parts byMackerel Cove. Its highest point near thecentre, is Freebodys Hill, on the south of. Narragansett Pier. converse. On the shore of the bay two orthree miles south of Wickford and oppositeFox Island, no shades of Academus surpassthe shades of the Cedars for serenity, exhil-eration and charming memories. But let us again turn our attention to thebeautiful islands of the bay. Conanicut Island fortunately retains its oldIndian name. It was purchased of the na-tives in January, 1654-55. The name re-minds us of Canonicus, who here had hisroyal residence, and was the earliest andfirmest friend of Roger Williams ; being avenerable old sachem when the exile reachedhis dominions; the grandson of the mightyand victorious Tashtassuck, in whose daysthe Xarragansetts, numbering five thousandtrained warriors, held the coast from Con-necticut to near Cape Cod. Some beautifulisland or rich tract of our State should havebeen named Caxoi^^icus in honor of the hon-est and pacific prince who was ever kind andtrue to our fathers, and who calmly passedaway, as he be
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