Betty B
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It gets its name from Adrian Block, a Dutch navigator who visited it in sixteen fourteen.
When the first English families settled on the island a half century later there were about four hundred Indian inhabitants and
The island has one great pond and ninety nine small ones.
The largest stream is only a rivulet.
A curious tradition of the island is that of the dancing mortar.
This mortar was a section of a tree fourteen inches long and ten in diameter, and hollowed out at one end so that corn could be pounded into meal with a stone pestle.
After the original owner died, the mortar won fame by dancing around the room.
It would throw itself on its side and roll to and fro, then write itself and hop up from the floor several times in succession and perform various other strange antics.
The first Black Island Hotel was opened in eighteen forty two.
But not until thirty years later did the island develop into the popular summering place it has now become.
The highest point in Rhode Island is Durfee Hill, which rises eight hundred and five feet above the sea level on the northwestern border of the state.
The people are popularly called gunflints, a name applied because of the common use of gunflint muskets taken from garrets in the Dor Rebellion of eighteen forty two.
End of What to See in America Rhode Island by Clifton Johnson
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