Travels in NewEngland and NewYork Author:Timothy Dwight Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER V. Westerly. Charlestown. South-Kingston. Aboriginal Tribes formerly inhabiting New-England. Their Population. Number of Warriors, as estimated by Gene... more »ral Gnu kin. War with the Narrhagansetts. Attack and Capture of their Fortress. Gallant Conduct of Captain Denison and others. Death of Nanuntenoo. Dear Sir; Saturday, September 20th, we left the hospitable house of Mr. D , and rode to Newport through Westerly, Charlestown, South-Kingston, and Jamestown on Cano- nicut island ; thirty-eight miles. About two miles from Mr. D 's we crossed Paukatuc river, which divides Connecticut from Rhode-Island, and Stonington from Westerly. At the bridge there is a pretty village, principally in Westerly, containing perhaps twenty houses. In this village a bank has lately been established with a capital of 100,000 dollars, which may be increased to 150,000. Paukatuc river forms the only harbour in Westerly, and furnishes excellent fisheries for bass, eels, black-fish, shad, and herrings. In the bay, which is formed at its month, these kinds of fish are caught in as great abundance as perhaps in any part of New-England. Long and round clams, also, oysters, and a little farther out in the Sound lobsters, are found in great numbers. The land in this township is divided into two kinds. The border of the Sound, which is generally good, and that in the interior, which is a collection of hills, stony, sandy, and lean, originally covered with shrub oaks and pitch pines. This ground, which constitutes a considerable part of the township,produces scarcely any thing, beside small crops of rye. On the former of these tracts the inhabitants are generally in good circumstances. On the latter, though said to be industrious, they are generally, and indeed necessarily, poor and unthrift...« less