The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-14
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Letter from a Traveller IN Neuo.
ENGLAND.

The writer of the following article has, as our
readers will perceive, adopted the nel0 mode
In writing an account of his travels, which
is, to sit down at his ease, after returning
home, and, from the Gazetteer, the HSStOri-
cal Collections, or such other works as treat
of the places he may have passed through
or near, to compile letters dated from differ
ent points of his route, interlarding them &C.
casionally with notices Of such things as
were sufficiently remarkable to be retained
in his memory. The writer has twisted our
main street around, from north and south to
east and west he has reduced our churches
from four to three, and placed the town as
it was, some twenty or thirty years since,
mostly on one street, whereas it is believed
that less than half the population is now To-
Gated on that street. In his notice of our
public buildings no mention is made of the
large and beautiful Town House, an edi6ce
which attracts the attention of every obserV-
ing traveller.
The people on the road from Leicester to
Brook6eld have hardly less reason to com.
plain of this writer. There are s.poor farm
houses" it is true--in what part of the coun.
try are there not?-But we too have trav-
elled, not only in New-England, but in New
York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and
may safely affirm, that we have rarely found
section of country, where, in the same
number of houses, the proportion of poor
ones was smaller. Ed. Spy.
From The N. 7. Commercial .Adueriser.1
Worcester is truly beautiful place,
and is the largest inland town in New
England. The town is principally built
ona street running from east to west, and
the houses are large and commodious,
and many of them elegant. Governor
Lincoln resides here, and occupies a spa
cious mansion, the flower garden and
other grounds of which presented a
spectacle of singular taste and beauty
The public buildings are, courthouse,
Jail, three churches, large brick house
of correction, and commodious building
erected for TIE reception of the library
and cabinet of the American Antiquarian
Society, by Isaiah Thomas, Esq. Presl.
dent of the Society, and the oldest prin,
ter in the u. States. The library con.
sists of nearly six thousand volumes
many of them rare and valuable works
and the cabinet is respectable. The
country in every direction is rich and
well cultivated. The hills slope gradu,
ally down TO the plain on which the vii
lage stands, and are moulded into va.
riety of beautiful forms. Being the
shire town very large and rich county
its trade is considerable, and the number
of public officers and professional mer
proportonably great.
From Worcester TO the vale of the
Connecticut River, the country is rough
enough to please mountain goat, or a
highlander. The first stage is TO Leices.
ter, six miles, celebrated for its numer.
Gus card manufactures. II is a pleas.
ant village, upon high hill, command:
view of wide range of country, and
in addition to IFS churches, (three in
number) hotel and factories, has hand.
some and we'll endowed academy. From
Leicester to Brookfeld, twelve miles,
the country is rough, billy and rocky.
Nothing contributed TO relieve the mo-
notony ofthe scene save here and there
a glimpse of one of those little mountain
lakes with which the country abounds,
and upon which the eye, wearied with
the succession of barren bills and poor
farm housas loves 10 linuer We d;nad
at Brook6eld, in large stage house,
we'll supported and most miserably kept.
Nothing was neat, every thing badly
cooked, and the bread sour enough 10
make any civilized pig squeal most Insti-
ly. We sent for change of bread, and
the second was worse than the first.
This subject, and this hotel, afford me a
favorable opportunity to introduce, by
way of depression, sundfy sage rules,
which RECOMMEND TO The attention Of