Chapter 22 NEWPORT OF AQUIDNECK.

"This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air

Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

Unto our gentle senses."-Macbeth.

Newport is an equivoque. It is old, and yet not; grave, though gay; opulent and poor; splendid and mean; populous or deserted. As the only place in New England where those who flee from one city are content to inhabit another,