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Excerpt from An Address: Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society, on the Evening of February Nineteenth, 1851
All along the belt of land adjoining the west side of the Bay, the country, generally productive, was owned in large planta tions by wealthy proprietors, who resided on and cultivated their land. They had the cultivation which would naturally result from a life of leisure, from intercourse with each other, and with the best informed men of the Colony, and from the pos session of private libraries, for that day, large and extensive. But any common system of education they could not have, from their very situation and distance from each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
