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an additional area of nearly 860 square miles, or more than one-fifth 
the total area of the state. Narragansett Bay proper is a narrow body 
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of salt water that makes into Rhode Island from the Atlantic Ocean, 
which washes the southern border of the state, as will be seen by 
