The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-31

the cars you seem to be dashing through sea of
verdure and blossoms. Orchards and meadows aud
gardens lie on each side of the way while in your
front is the eminence from which the place takes its
name covered with trees of various kinds, and hay
ing dwellings and other buildings looking out from
amid the foliage. The residences on the low grounds
are almost every one OF superior character. The
Wellington estate-whose owner died but few
DAYS snce-is GEM in the way Of rural excellence,
and the country around it enhances its beauties. 1t
is in this quarter Of the town that many people have
settled of late years. and it may be considered as the
child of the railway. Six trains OF cars go through
it every day. from Boston, while fouSrains run to
the centre of the town. Three nights in the week
trains un to Wellington Hill until eleven o'clock.
West Cambridge was one of the principal sufferers
by the tornado Of August 70, 1851 day that will
long be remembered in this part of the world as
" Black Friday" 1t occurred between five and six
o'clock in the afternoon, and would have been re-
spected even in the West Indies the Isle of France
This town was certainly not the least sufferer among
the half dozen that were made to feel its ravages
Some twenty buildings were here either totally de-
stroyed or greatly injured. Large and strong build
ings were torn to fragments, or blown down. Some
houses were unroofed, and others were deprived Of
their chimneYs and outbuildings. Great havoc was
made in of the fine orchards of the town. Only
three persons received injuries oil of whom recover
destroyed On that pond the water was thrown into
a column upwards Of hundred feet in height.
Nothing like this visitation before occurred in
this part Of the country and il is 70 be hoped that it
well be dispensed with. Some people who saw
large part Of the of the fierce blast, assure
me that it was a splendid sght-at distance.
The road from West Cambridge-or rather We'll
lngton Hll-to Waltham, is very beautifully located.
The country through which it runs is, though not all
cultivated, or even the most of it, apparently very
fertile, and capable of being turned to account in
the way of agriculture There forest trees, fruit
trees shrubs, and wild flowers of every description
brooks, woods, and meadows and here and there
delightfully."- situated residences or richly cultivated
FARMS AT the rate that things have been going on
during the last eight years, this section Of country
must soon be filled up with settlers from Boston and
its immediate vicinity Attempts have been made
to get up settlement this road, and the name Of
Wayerly was given to very fine place, but it has
not proved very attractive, should judge from the
appearance of things. The truth is, that too many
Of totally insensihe to the beauties Of nature,
and either partial Indifferent to her deformities.
Some Of the most prosperous of the country villages
in this State, consequent railway facilities having
become so common, are the most hideous spots this
side of Sahara from which excellent in the
wayof desoaton they appear to be neegsnt extracts
while places selected on the Of their beauty
have not always thriven. Convenience of the most
material utitarian kind is the first thing thought
Of and it happens that that is not always found in
unison with those marks Of floral and forest garden
like beauties with which nature often lavishly
endows particular places, leaving others barren as
poverty, and ugly as sin ought to be, but rarely IS
CHARLES LIE CHAUyE,