Tarry at home travels . nd red with flowers,Is this new-found land of ours! Roses close above the sand, Roses on the trees on land,I shall take this land for my land,Rosy beach and rosy I name it Roses Island. According to me, Block named the island RosesIsland when he saw this magnificent you will come and see me where I write, notfar away, and come before July is over, I willtake you into a rhododendron covert, whereyou may see the same thing. So far as I know,no one excepting the immediate circle of mydearest friends believes in this interpretation oretymology. But
Tarry at home travels . nd red with flowers,Is this new-found land of ours! Roses close above the sand, Roses on the trees on land,I shall take this land for my land,Rosy beach and rosy I name it Roses Island. According to me, Block named the island RosesIsland when he saw this magnificent you will come and see me where I write, notfar away, and come before July is over, I willtake you into a rhododendron covert, whereyou may see the same thing. So far as I know,no one excepting the immediate circle of mydearest friends believes in this interpretation oretymology. But it is within this generation thatI published it to the world, and we will still hopethat it will gradually reach its place at the headof the theories about the name of Rhode Island.(Since I put this statement into print an atten-tive correspondent tells me that Roger Williams ERODE ISLAND 201 says in one of his letters that the island wasnamed from the roses on its shores.) As I have said already, the best way to go to. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeure, Comte de —1807. Newport is to go in a friends yacht from Provi-dence. The voyage may take you a longer orshorter time, according as the yacht has steampower or has not; according as winds are northor south. But you will not care much for that. 202 TAKRY AT HOME TRAVELS It will be a pleasant voyage, anyway. So pleasantis it that you will not be far amiss if, going toNew York from Boston, you go as your grand-father used to do — in a steamboat from Provi-dence. It is not so large as the Fall River steam-boat, but it gives you this charming bay. Every inch of that has itsstory, if you shouldhappen to find someold sachem who cantell you that storj^Stor}^? God blessyou! Yes. Storiesof Roger Williams, ofCanonicus and Canon-chet, of Wampum (ask Chevalier de Chastellux. William Wccdcn tO tell you that); stories of King Philip, and ofTower Hill, and of the Narragansett fight; storiesof the capture of the Gaspec; stor
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