Excerpt from Block Island: A Hand-Book, With Map, for the Guidance of Summer Visitors, Telling How, to Reach That Pleasant Little Place of Resort, and What to Do on Getting There; Together With Description and Sentiment Calculated to Adorn an Otherwise Plain Tale, and to Excite The There are but few physiques with enough elasticity to endure, without some slight interruption at times, the exhaustion of America's high-pressure social and business life, augmented as it is almost every year by the intensity of the summer's heat; and even of those who are not particularly burdened with tasks and cares, there are but few to whom an occasional change of thought and surroundings does not afford both temporary gratification and more or less permanent and varied good. And so, overcome with ennui or the weather, or both, over-taxed in mind or body or depressed in spirits, all classes of humanity rush eagerly every summer to the woods, the mountains or the sea, for a longer or shorter stay, seeking that physical, mental or spiritual refreshment which the old routine, and "nature's sweet restorer" do not give at home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.