The much-visited southeastern coast of Connecticut spans fifteen miles from Stonington in the east to Niantic in the west, bisected by the Thames (pronounced Thaymz ) River. Each of the handful of tiny, picturesque colonial communities and old whaling villages along the Long Island Sound is a mere stone's throw from the next. No longer are they the iniquitous and rumbustious ports that so inspired Melville, but they're still keen to preserve a sense of their history. The restored nineteenth-century Mystic Seaport justifies at least a day's visit; nearby are the less lovely US Naval submarine base at Groton and the pretty fishing harbor of Stonington Borough .

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