Saturday, June 10, 2006
Mt. Hope Bay
The last week or so there has been a fantastic series in the Providence Journal about a RI hero, Nathaniel Greene, and the Revolutionary War. He consistently wrote home during the Winter of 1776 and all of the letters have been documented, analyzed and stitched together with history to form a fascinating story.
I’ve previously mentioned Bristol as the home of King Phillip, who ended up with his head on a pole in Plymouth, and thought this portion of the story describing my hometown was interesting. In his diary, On Dec. 7, 1776 the British Lt. Frederick Mackenzie found Narragansett and Mount Hope bays to be studded with many fine and well cultivated Islands, and the beautiful bays and inlets, with the distant view of towns, farms, and cultivated lands intermixed with Woods make this (even at this bleak season of the year) the finest, most diversified, and extensive prospect I have yet seen in America.
I’ve previously mentioned Bristol as the home of King Phillip, who ended up with his head on a pole in Plymouth, and thought this portion of the story describing my hometown was interesting. In his diary, On Dec. 7, 1776 the British Lt. Frederick Mackenzie found Narragansett and Mount Hope bays to be studded with many fine and well cultivated Islands, and the beautiful bays and inlets, with the distant view of towns, farms, and cultivated lands intermixed with Woods make this (even at this bleak season of the year) the finest, most diversified, and extensive prospect I have yet seen in America.
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