"Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed."

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No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

— James F. Cooper