The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-14

cient to exemplify the faculties ofswiitness,
and the powers of extension and dlminu-
ton, in the rattlesnake.-.Nr. .4adu6on'S
Notes on the RaItlesndke.
Names. The cataloge Of Post Towns
in the United States exhibits perhaps the
most curious nomenclature Imaginable
There are no less than twenty towns nam
ed Washington, nine Jeffersons, eight Mad
isons, seventeen Monroes eight Jacksons,
six Clintons, two or three Adamses, and no
| Calhouns nor Clays-portentous OF DIRE re-
suits and conclusions There are also sew
enteen Richmonds, fourteen Columbus, as
many Fairfields, ditto Lebanons, ditto Sa-
lens, ditto Mount Peasants; OF Spring
fields, Middletowns, and Centrevllles, thlr-
teen each; besides hosts OF Unions, Con-
cords, Liberties, Newtons, Wllmngtons,
/ Georgetowns, Charlestowns, Eslzapeth-
towns, &c. &c.
But the numerous instances OF similar
ity in name are not the most remark
able traits in the dicture of our mail route.
We have every variety of cognomen,
from the most uncouth and broken-jawed
Indian. French or German appellatlons, to
1.-THE refined and fanciful christenlngs OF
classical taste and polished caprlce-trom
BGuf, to Paradise, Elysian Fields and Lit
tie Sandy Salt Works. Some future Wal
ter Scott of our land may find an album
dance of sonorous couplets wherewith to
enrich a geographical epic-such as Bottle
Hill Cobbleskill; Scuffietown, Pumpkin
town; Rising Sun, Poke Run; Orreskan-
ny, Parsippanny Split Rock, Peeled Oak /;
BurntcorH Spring, Mamakating Tomhan-
mock, Rappahannock, Tuckhannoc and
Tappahannock. The novelist may domi-
tcllate his heroine at White Chimnies, Gum
Shade, Temple of Health, or Pickaway
Plains; and place his hero at Pig Point,
Short Plump, Smokers Gap, Bachelors
Retreat, Head of Cow Neck, Elkhorn or
Little Cape Capon. The traveller may re-
count his hair-breadth 'scapes" at Tumb
ling Shoal, Roaring River, Troublesome
Iron Works, Little Brokenstraw, Skull
Camp, Shoulderbone and Arnold's Old
Piace-and the newspapers of after times
may contain many paragraph like the fol-
lowing: A gentleman going from Tonga
coming on the road to upper Peach tree,
had the misfortune to fall and break his
arm just this side of Turkey Foot; he
reached Piping Tree on Friday, where he
found a Big Flat Surgeon, who dressed the
wound and accompanied him to Rough
Creek Church-passing by Plow and Har-
row, they reached Travellers Repose on
Sunday. We have our information through
a traveller from Hurricane Shoals, by the
way Of Black Horse and Blue Water.
Nantucket Inquirer.
/ 4 WELSH ISvITATIoN Mr.. Walter Nor
ton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys
compliments to Mr., Charles Morgan, Mrs.
Charles Morgan, Miss Charles Morgan,
and the Goyerness whose name Mr.. Walter
Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss
Sandys do not reccllect, and Mr.. Walter
Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss
Sandys request the favor of the company
of Mr. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Nor
gan, and Miss Charles Morgan, and the
Goyerness whose name Mr. Waiter Norton,
Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do
not recollect, to dinner on Monday week
next Mr.. Walter Norton, Mrs. Walter
Norton, and Miss Sandys beg to intern
Mr.. Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan,
and Miss Charles Morgan, and the Cover
ness whose name Mr.. Walter Norton, Mrs.
Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys do not
recollect, that Mr.. Walter Norton, Mrs.
Walter Norton, and Miss Sandys can &C
comodate Mr.. Charles Morgan, Mrs.
Chales Morgan, and Miss Charles Morgan,
and the Geverness whose name Mr.. Wal
ter Norton, Mrs. Walter Norton, and Miss
/ Sandys do not recollect, with beds, if re-
naming the night is agreeable to Mr..
Charles Morgan, Mrs. Charles Morgan,
Miss Charles Morgan, and the Governess
whose name Mr.. Walter Norton, Mrs.
Walter Nortsn, and Miss Sandys do not
recollect.-London paper,
/ FREEzING. 1t is a we'll known fact. that
water, though it contracts by cold, and ex-
pands by heat, will, notwithstanding, while
/ 1t is in the very act of freezing, suddenly
expand, and that with such an enormous
force as to burst the strongest metal shells,
and rend rocks assunder. In fact no resist
ance can withstand the expansive force
OF freezing. By computation of the ex-
pansive force of freezing water, made ~ the
tlorentine Academcians, from thu BURSTING
OF strong brass globe, in which thew froze
the lnclosed water, it was proved. that the
expansive power VI spherule of water.
only one lscn IN diameter, was sufficient to
overcome Il resistance gilmore than twenty
seven thousand pounds or thirteen and a
half tons. The same is proved by Major /
Edward Williams, of the Royal Artillery, /
from the experiments he made in bursting (
thick bomb-shells, by freezing water in
them. Huygens, to try the force witt,
which it expands, filed a cannon WIN
water, and exposed it to the COD. after
closing the mouth and vent so that no water
could escape and IN IL hours the water
troze and burst the cannon. Major Will /
liams filled thick iron bomb-sheIls of all (
sizes with water, and plugged the fuze hole |
close up, and exposed them to the strong
freezing air Of the winter, and though he |
drove in the plugs as hard as sledge
could force them, they were all thrown ont
by the expansion of the frozen water, like /
a ball shot out by gunpowder, to the dis
lance of 500 feet, though they were 3 ID.
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