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...Washington, Pa. 68 Bellows, A. Robert '59 G 21 6.2 205 Manchester, N.H. 69 Waterman, David G. '60 G 21 5.10 200 Halifax, Mass. 70 Wright, Gilbert P. '61 T 19 6.2 195 Wellesley Hills, Mass. 71 Jeffrey, Frank J. '59 T 21 6.1 215 Pawcatuck, Conn. 72 Courtemanche, Robert A. '60 T 19 6.0 215 Methuen, Mass. 73 Hurley, Peter H. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Rumford, R.I. 74 Coffin, Howard A. '61 T 19 6.5 220 Hudson, Ohio 75 Hoover, John S. '61 T 19 6.2 205 Altoona, Pa. 76 Glasheen, John...
Beside the little Pawcatuck River, six miles back of where the Atlantic makes Watch Hill a swank summer resort, the lively 270-year-old town of Westerly, R. I. (pop.: 11,000) lies snug against most ordinary ocean blows. But the one that whistled in on the afternoon of last September 21 was no ordinary blow, it was the wildest in the memory of any New Englander. Having washed a good deal of Watch Hill away, it tossed garages and outbuildings into the air, snapped off church steeples, huffed houses down, crippled the power lines, blew in, among others...
...twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread out by the wash of ice-water from the margin of the glacial sheet. This plain slopes to the sea-shore, where a number of lagoons are enclosed by off-shore, wave-built...
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