The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-02-15

practicable land as upon water. The
( great desIderatum seems TO have been
Ia guiding power, and that is effectu-
ally provided by the construction of the
Hallway, which confines The carriage to
agiven track. Tstould feel the same de-
gree security 10 one Of these vehicles,
as In steamboat, since the carriage
IS at a distance from the boiler.
% Dur return from this novel and in
,erestng exhibition, which evinces, in a
striking manner, TO what extent the
control of mind over matter nay be
carried, producing new combinations of
the elements and giving motto, TO the
inert mass by an invisible power, we
accompanied on, friend to his delightful
residence, and dined very Pleasantly in
The little circle of bis family in a style
Of attic simplicity, and freq from that
cold Formally, which ejiqustte imposes.
The walls of his apartments were hung
with the likeness of some OF our dls'ln-
guished men, aud muchof The conveTsa-
ton atfable turned upon the institutions
of our own country. Such was the
hospitality of this "arm-hearted Irish
man, that he gave three Of us, who
were sirangersEo him in the morning, a
general invitation to dine with hin eve
ry day, as long as we remained in town.
II will readily be supposed, that we took
leave of him and his family with re-
gre, that an acquaintance, which had IN
all respects been so agreeable, could
notbe protracted.
Yesterday at O'Clock we took our
seas in the coach for this place. The
enIirons of Leeds are rich and beauti-
full A deep verdure clothes the hills,
which surround it, and a number Of
handsome country seats enliven the
landscape. Every acre Of the ground is
highly cultivated, to supply the market
Of great manufacturing town. For
several miles, the road winds up an &C
cliyity presenting full view of Leeds
and of the valley in which it stands.
The smoke of ten thousand factories,
contIasted with the green fields and
woods of the adjacent hills formed a
pretty picture.
The coachman and guard were un-
Usually intelligent, and attentive TO us,
taxing pains 10 designate whatever was
worthy of observation upon the road, in
language too, so free from the broad
pfeyincialisms of Yorkshire, as to be
intelligible, which is far from being
uniformly the case with the common
people of this county. English tourists
have ridicuIed the peculiarities of the
Yankee dialect, which is nevertheless
pure and classical, in comparison with
the local and drawing jargon of their
own countrymen. The whole volume
of Americanisms would not comprise SO
many corruptions of the English Ian
guage, as single county 10 Great Brit
am. even if that in which the metropo-
lis is situated were selected. The rea-
sons are obvious. In our country, all
classes Of the community enjoy the
advantages of early education.-Onr
>chnol.books and standards of pronuucia-
ton are nearly the same in every State,
producing of course uniformity in Ian
guage. Another cause may be found in
the enterpFising and emigrating spirit Of
our people, by which the whole mass is
KEEP; in agitation, aud local peculiarities
prevented An inhabitant of Massachu.
sets this year, may the next year be a
resident upon the banks of the Ohio OF
Missouri; while the succession of the
Yorkshire farmer is much more regular
and uninterrupted than the line of hi;
kings, never quitting his paternal acres
from The cradle TO the grave, and trans
hitting his dialect from generation ia
generation, becoming broader and more
strongly marked as ii decends.