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Topographical Geology. 



tentment, competence, and happiness, are found even among the low- 

 est classes in the community. The traveler of a benevolent heart 

 will rejoice to see, as he wanders over the hills and vallies of our 

 commonwealth, how very few in the community have not all the es- 

 sential means of human happiness within their reach. He need not 

 fear being detained for days in the wildest and most secluded parts of 

 the State. For scarcely will he find the hut, where if really needing 

 shelter, he will not find a welcome, and all that a temperate man needs 

 to make him comfortable. A man who has frequently been thrown 

 into such situations, or in other words, has had opportunity to learn 

 the character and circumstances of the lowest as well as the highest 

 classes in our community, will find his pleasure greatly heightened 

 in surveying our scenery. Let us hope that succeeding travelers, 

 through many generations, may not be deprived of this same happi- 

 ness ; and instead of indulging in gloomy predictions of the downfall 

 of liberty, let every man strive to form and retain that intellectual, 

 moral and religious character, which is its only effectual support. 



But I fear that I am wandering beyond my appropriate.sph.ere, by 

 these remarks. I proceed to notice some other objects worthy the 

 attention of the man of leisure and taste. 



New Bedford seen from its Harbor. 



This flourishing place, already wearing the aspect of a populous 

 city, is seen to great advantage in sailing up its harbor. As the 

 ground on which it is built slopes towards the water, the various ob- 

 jects of interest are thus brought into view, rising above one another 

 in a distinct and pleasing manner. 



Narraganset and Mount Hope Bays. 



An excursion from Taunton to Newport, Rhode Island, down 

 Taunton river and Mount Hope Bay, and especially from Providence 

 to Newport along Narraganset Bay, conducts the traveler among sce- 

 nery of great beauty and loveliness. The fertility of most of the 

 country, the neat villages along the way, the numerous irregular 

 contractions and expansion of these bays, forming capes, isth- 

 muses, promontories, bays and harbors in miniature ; the islands 

 that are occasionally interspersed, and the interesting historical as- 

 sociations connected with that region, conspire to keep the attention 

 alive and to gratify the taste. Mount Hope, the granite watch 

 tower of tl^e celebrated sachem Phillip, still commands a fine prospect 



