Connecticut is one of the thirteen original States. From east to west it extends about ninety-five miles, from north to south about sixty miles. Its area of 4965 square miles could be contained in Texas fifty-three times; only two States, Rhode Island and Delaware, are smaller in size. ...
  Maine, the extreme northeastern State in the Union, is the only one adjoined by but a single sister State. Its comparatively isolated position may be accountable for an aloofness sometimes said to be characteristic of its people. The southern boundary of the State is the Atlantic Ocean...
  Massachusetts - To the seeker of a clue to the character of Massachusetts people, the rubric of the east wind may be useful. Time and again a salty breeze has blown through this most conservative of commonwealths. It wafted the first rebels to Cape Cod, dying down soon after...
  New Hampshire - For more than three centuries white men have been coming to New Hampshire. The Plymouth Pilgrims had been in the country only three years when another group found their way to the Piscataqua River and became the first dwellers in this part of the New World...
  Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, is about 48 miles
long and 37 miles wide; it could be contained in Texas two hundred times.
Of Rhode Island's 1497 square miles, more than 200 are occupied by the
waters of Narragansett Bay, which extends 28 miles inland from the sea...
  Vermont - Although it has an area of only 9564 square miles and hence ranks forty-second in size among the States, Vermont contains a much more
diversified range of scenic interest than many a much larger State. The State as a whole is essentially a mountainous area. Elevations range from 95 feet...