The Intelligencer, & Petersburg Commercial Advertiser

RHODE ISLAND. On the island of Rhode Island, which is eleven miles long and five miles broad, there are seven hundred miles of double wall, from four and a half to five feet high, most of which is handsome and in excellent order. This wall has all been built within one hundred and ninety years, and the expense of building it is estimated to have cost more than the whole island would sell for, and buildings. The wall, if it were in one direct line, would reach from the town of Newport, on Rhode Island, to Michigan territory. The lots on the island are under a high state of cultivation; and it may be truly said to have an aspect like the garden of Eden. In this island there are fifty-five square miles; and, perhaps, in no parts of the world are there more products of the earth raised for man and beast than on this island, annually, within the same compass of ground. Besides all this, it is as healthy a place as any one in this country, and a more delightful summer residence cannot be found on the globe.