. America, picturesque and descriptive. )cdo Station, and a new Naval Hospital. This most ^S)l^ stone /IDill, IRewport, 1R. Ni:w in:i)F()KD. 130 famous of AiiK-rlcan seaside watcrini^-plac-es has apennauent poj)ulation approximating twcnty-tivethousand, considerably increased by the summervisitors. Ni:\V To the eastward of Xarrai:;ansett anotlier bav isthrust far up into tlie hind of ]\[assachusetts, ]iuz-zards Bay, which ahnost bisects the great defensiveforearm of ^Massachusetts, Cape Cod. This bay isthirty miles long and about seven miles wide. Be-tween it and Narragansett ar
. America, picturesque and descriptive. )cdo Station, and a new Naval Hospital. This most ^S)l^ stone /IDill, IRewport, 1R. Ni:w in:i)F()KD. 130 famous of AiiK-rlcan seaside watcrini^-plac-es has apennauent poj)ulation approximating twcnty-tivethousand, considerably increased by the summervisitors. Ni:\V To the eastward of Xarrai:;ansett anotlier bav isthrust far up into tlie hind of ]\[assachusetts, ]iuz-zards Bay, which ahnost bisects the great defensiveforearm of ^Massachusetts, Cape Cod. This bay isthirty miles long and about seven miles wide. Be-tween it and Narragansett are the tree-clad hills ofthe sparsely-settled regions Avhich the Indians calledAponigansett and Acoaksett, out of which the Acush-net l\iver runs down to its broadening estuary, nowthe harbor of New Bedford. Originally this city was}e}»led by Quakers of the English Russell family,of which the Duke of Bedford is the head, so thatthe colony was named from his title. A numerousPortuguese migration to the early settlements hascaused one of the suburbs to still retain the name ofFayal. New Bedford stretches two miles al
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