What to see in America . On the Seaward Slope of Mt. Hope 60 What to See in America. Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, North Kingston the next century, when a wave of fashion swept into the oldplace. Its attractions were a salubrious climate without ex-tremes of heat or cold the year through, wide ocean prospects from its cliffs,extensive bath-ing beaches, anda delightful his-toric one of thecity parks is thefamous OldStone Mill,which was prob-ably a windmillerected by anearly governor about 1675, but which some claim was builtby the Norsemen hundreds of years before Columbus dis-cove
What to see in America . On the Seaward Slope of Mt. Hope 60 What to See in America. Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, North Kingston the next century, when a wave of fashion swept into the oldplace. Its attractions were a salubrious climate without ex-tremes of heat or cold the year through, wide ocean prospects from its cliffs,extensive bath-ing beaches, anda delightful his-toric one of thecity parks is thefamous OldStone Mill,which was prob-ably a windmillerected by anearly governor about 1675, but which some claim was builtby the Norsemen hundreds of years before Columbus dis-covered America. Longfellow, in his well-known poem,The Skeleton in ^ ,^___,Armor, makes it thehome of a bold Norsesailor and his the lady diedthe husband buriedher under the stonetower and killed him-self by falling on hisspear. A little beyond thenorth end of Aquid-neck, on a mainland peninsula, is Mt. Hope, the dwelling-place of that mostfamous of New England Indians, King Philip. His villagewas at the foot of a rude crag where there was a good spring.
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