The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-16
Our New York correspondence.

ANGELICA, IN. W Nov I, 1850
The Country about AHgciica--7he T0;vn-Publis
Bu,idiWgs-S Scenery Geological Charactsr-Al.
hsldny County Cuba oil Spring Coal-.Sce-
nay and FaRs-POppiafion, &C. &c.
Those who have not travelled through this part
Of Western New York, can form but an indefinite
idea Of The grandeur and magnifcence OF the coun-
Try surrounding the pleasant and delightfully."- stuat
ed village Of Angelici. The general surface of the
country Stimulating, with declination westward
toward the Genesee river The town of Angelica
was Incorporated as a borough, by an act Of the
Legislature, passed the "a of May, 1888, and at
that time contained n very beautiful brick court
house, prison Of s,one clerks offices, Presby-
terrain, an Episcopal, a Baptist, and Methodist
church; also, select school, two printing offices,
from each Of which weekly paper was issued; a
erist nil, a saw mil, clothing works, woollen
factory, Elk stOres, four taverns and two hundred
and - dwCllings atew Of brick and stone, but most.
town, but the chief one of Allegheny county. II
IS now Place Of considerable importance in this
Wild and MOUNTAINOUS region.
This county forms a large portion Of the hilly
country which compOses the southwestern part of
the STATE. The summit in the south is elevated
two thousand feet above tide water; aud on the
east a beautiful ridge divides the waters Of the
county, giving the streams respectively, an eastern
n
number Of repd and beautiful creeks TO flow into
the Susque haInah, and an equal number on the
northeast TO descend into tributary Of the Gene
see: The ridge on the east extends northward
with very little depression, from Andover, through
the towns Of Alfred, Almond, Birdsall, Grove and
Nunda. West Of this, the whole surface OF the
country is rather more low, and admits OF
profitable tillage. The county belongs to
the great western secondary formation, underlaid
by cafboniferous slate, upon which is bed ofquar-
toz rock, extending over nearly its whole area.
This rock consists Of blue and ash-colored sand
stone, which is used TO some extent for building
purposes. lnthe town Of Cuba, and in several other
places, limestone has been found, but in irregular
masses, and filled with shells, but not in the form
OF qualification Encrinites corallines eutrocites
terebratula, and so forth, are found numerously
embedded in the sandstone and shale. There ~,
also, at Cuba, considerable beds OF mountain iror
ore but, at Angelica and Canada, bog ore abound;
in rich veins. The soil formed Of these compo-
nents is, alternaiST, ergillacious and sandy loan
which makes IT reasonably fertile and productive
but il is, as &c seral thing, damp and wet, adm
Tnby suited for grass and oats
Allegheny county constitutes part OF the trac
which was coded 10 MASSACHUSETTS, and is within
the area Of the "Ilolland Land Purchase Pre-
viously 10 their purchase, however, this company
had established sort off sub office at Ellicotville
per acre.
The line ofthe New York and Erie railroad, that
stolendous and wonderful enterprise, enters tn.
county by what is called the " Genesee Division,
IN me valley OF the Canada creek, and passes on
by Dyke creek to the Genesee valley Il then de-
scenes me same valley about ten miles, and takes
IN us course vsncampen's creek, Oil creek, &c.
hiong the delaware river, from Port Jervis 10
bngnsm,on, TINS railroad company have been
compelled to blast through miles Of rock, in order
TO get room for the T" iron track - and, in many
places, there is barely room for the care to pass
between the solid rocky battlements of the noun.
tsiDs, which lift their gigantic heads hundreds OF
feet above, and. the perpendicular decliviiy hun.
dreds Of feet below into the river
q q nh nils
which lie rare curiosity. itrises in deep marsh
and Is a muddy, circular, stagnant pool, eighteer
feet IN diameter with discernible outlet, asd nc
other circulation than that caused by changes in
the temperature, the passage Of the gas, and
petroleum which are constantly rising, and which