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bly the most elevated. It is composed chiefly of large fragments of granite, and is yet in a state of nature. Legate hill, over which passes the County road to Leominster. North Wickapekitt hill, as its aboriginal name denotes, is a remarkable steep and sharp pointed declivity. The dividing line between this place and Leominster runs over these rugged eminences, leaving the greater part of them in that town. Justice hill, about 400 feet high from its base, is the site of a great County road from Westminster to Boston. In ancient times the great public travel from Boston to Connecticut river passed over this formidable elevation. In the wars that ended in the conquest of Canada, many of the troops marched by this route to those frozen regions. Chocksett hill, which retains its ancient Indian name, and Rowley hill, which denotes the native place of the first settlers in its vicinity, are two lofty eminences, near the centre of the township. The lands around them are fertile, and in a state of good cultivation. The prospect from them is extensive, and their summits are visible at a great distance. Fitch hill needs not to be described to the traveller from Boston to Princeton. Redstone bill, about a mile east of the village is so called from the color of its rocks, which are principally formed of sulphuret of iron, embedded in an argillaceous slate-when exposed to the atmosphere, the pyrites decompose, leaving a reddish brown efflorescence upon the surface. These stones are found by Shoemakers to be a good substitute for the Copperas of the shops. The South Wickapekitt hill is about one hundred rods south east of the meeting house, and terminates a vale of about three miles in length, the northern end of which is bounded by the hill of the same name, before described. They resemble each other in their shapes. Kendall hill is a large swell of the most fertile and productive lands, of more than a thousand acres, divided into fifteen or twenty beautiful farms, all inclosed by substantial stone walls, presenting to the passenger some of the most interesting rural scenery in this part of the country. These lands are generally moist and rocky, but when subdued by successive years of persevering industry, are warm and productive. In general they are not unfitted for grain, but are more peculiarly adapted to grazing and hay. This hill took its name from that of the first settlers upon it, who removed hither from Woburn about the year 1740.

In the southwest part of the town is a large tract, containing several hundred acres of pine plain lands, which yield but a scanty profit to the cultivator. Many parts of the town are defaced by

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rough declivitous hills of disruptured fragments of rocks, which yield no profit if reclaimed from their forest state. Compared with most of the neighboring towns, the soil may be pronounced good, and wants nothing but more industry and enterprize to place it in the foremost rank of the agricultural towns in the County.

MILLS.-But few towns are more unfortunately situated in this respect. From the want of suitable water falls or mill sites, we have no Factories either for Cotton or Wool. No clothier's works nor even a Carding machine. For all these conveniences the inhabitants are tributary to their neighbors of other towns more highly favored. There are three Grist mills, one on Still river, one on Justice brook, and one on the western branch of the Wikapekitt. Of Saw mills there are seven, one on Still river, one on Rocky brook, two on Justice brook, one on the west branch of Wikapekitt, and one on the south branch, and another on Hartwell's river, from Princeton. These several mills are not supplied with water more than half the time upon an average. Two thirds of the grain consumed in the town is probably ground at other places.

There are upwards of twenty small shops containing lathes for the purpose of turning chair stuff. The small rivulets in different parts of the town afford water power sufficient to carry these machines. These are an important aid to the extensive manufactories of chairs, which form the staple commodity of the Sterling Mechanics. It is estimated that the numbers sold by the different Manufacturers the last year exceeded 70,000, and that that number is not greater than the average for the last ten years. This affords employment to a considerable proportion of the population. G.

TO BE CONTINUED.

VARIETIES.

Proper Behaviour at Siam.-During the whole of the visit the suite of the Chief lay prostrate on the earth before him, and at a distance. When addressed, they did not dare to cast their eyes towards him; but, raising the head a little, and touching the forehead with both hands, united in the manner by which we would express the most earnest supplication, their looks still directed to the ground, they whispered an answer in the most humiliating tone. The manner in which he was approached by the servants of his household was even still more revolting to nature :-When refreshments were ordered, they crawled forward on all fours, supported on the elbows

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and toes, the body being dragged on the ground. In this manner they pushed the dishes before them from time to time, in the best manner that their constrained and beastlike manner would admit, until they had put them in their place, when they retreated backward in the same grovelling manner, but without turning round. Finlayson's Mission.

Miser's Poverty.-M. de Palavacine being asked by some friends to join in a matter which would have cost him some trifle, hastily interrupted them, and said, that he was by no means so rich as it was supposed. He then shewed them a cabinet in his chamber: "in that cabinet now," said he, "I have five hundred thousand livres in bars of silver, that do not bring me in one farthing;" in the bank of Venice he had a hundred thousand crowns, but then they only paid three per cent interest; then at Genoa he had four hundred thousand livres, where the rate of interest was equally low, and therefore "that can be no great things"-and so he went Memoires de Gourville.

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State of the Court of Chancery, England.-On the 11th January 1825, there were pending, and ready for hearing

Appeals

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Pleas and Demurrers

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Causes before the Lord Chancellor and Vice Chancellor 401
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Making a total (exclusive of motions to be made, and of judgments pending before the Lord Chancellor) of 1577. This list cannot, if the cases are fully and properly heard, be got through in less than four or five years at soonest; in many cases the parties must consume the same time in the Master's office; when they have waded through that sink of expense and delay, they must wait about three years more before their cause is heard on further directions; they

are then liable to have an appeal to the Lord Chancellor, and from four to six years more must elapse before it can be heard; and how many years before they obtain judgment, no man can tell.

Knowles, in his Turkish History, relates an extraordinary instance of capricious tyranny. It is, that a German prisoner, of a gigantic figure and heroic courage, was exposed, by command of the Sultan, with his hands and feet securely fettered, and destroyed inch-meal by a dwarf, who reached little higher than his knees.

Such is the advantage to be derived from habits of cleanliness that though in Greece the best Albanian cottage has not even a hole in the roof for the smoke from the hearth to escape, yet the walls and the floor being covered with clay or plaister and constantly swept, are so perfectly clean that neither dirt nor vermin of any kind can be harbored; nor is there in those dwellings the same liability of contagion which exists in the divans and couches of more stately mansions.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

POST OFFICE RETURN.

Nett amount of revenue accruing from the Post Offices in the County of Worcester, after deducting the Postmaster's compensation, &c.

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75 72

Barre

88 84

Paxton

24 68

Blackstone

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Petersham

62 45

Bolton

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Brookfield

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Royalston

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Dana

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Rutland

43 65

Douglas

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Dudley

68 36

Southborough

32 59

Fitchburg

89 04

Southbridge

110 02

Grafton

110 59

South Leicester

17 33

Hardwick

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Sterling

45 33

Holden

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Sturbridge

56 60

Hubbardston

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Lancaster

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Leicester

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Leominster

113 88

Uxbridge

90 24

Lunenburg

65 38

Uxbridge South

285

Mendon

125 05

Westborough

104 86

Milford

77 66

West Boylston

63 92

Milford Centre

14 79

West Brookfield

120 67

Millbury

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New Braintree

63 07

Westminster

84 61

Northborough

83 14

Northbridge

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Wind, Weather, &c.
W.-N. W.-N. W.-cloudy.
N.-N.-N.-cloudy.

S.-S. E.-S. E.-cloudy, snow.
W.-W.-W.-fair.
S.-N.-W.-snow, fair.

W.-S. W.-W.-fair, cloudy.
W.-S. W.-S. W.-cloudy, rainy.
W.-S. W.-N. W.-cloudy.

N. W.-N. W.-N. W.-fair, cloudy.
W.-W.-S. W.-rainy.
S.-S.-S.-rainy.

W.-W.-W.-fair.

W.-W.-W.-fair.

N.-N.-N. W.-snowy,

fair.

N. W.-N. W.-N. W.-fair.
W.-N.-N.-cloudy.

S. W.-N. W.-N.-fair, cloudy.
S. W.-S. W.-S. W.-cloudy.
W.-N. W.-S. W.-fair.
N.-N. E.-N. E.-cloudy.
S.-S. E.-N. E.-snow, rain.
N. W.-N. W.-N. W.-fair.
W.-S. E.-N. E.-cloudy.
W.-W.-N. W.-fair.
N.-S.-S.-rainy, cloudy.
S. W.-W.-W.-cloudy.
N.-N.-N.-snow.
N.-N.-N.-cloudy.

Deaths.

Worcester-Joseph Daniels-68. Ezekiel Partridge-51. Miss Augusta
Webb-16. Mrs. Susanna Blackman-76. Rufus Porter-36.

Leicester-Miss Rebecca W. Trask-20.

Warwick-Jonas Clark-75.

Ward-James Hart-88.

Hubbardston-Mrs. Mary F. Dickinson, widow of Capt. David Dickinson,

late of Petersham-46.

Marlborough-Widow Susanna Rice-82.

Harvard-Luther T. Gerry-16.

Templeton-Hervey Holden, drowned-22.

Miss Mary Hosmer→→22.

Elias Sawyer-78, a native of Sterling. Mrs. Adaline Day-27. Mrs.
Perses Upham-35. Robert Fitts-84.

Barre-Capt. Abijah Harding-75.

Spencer-Maj. William White--82.

Lancaster-Aaron Johnson-78.

Westminster-Widow Lucy Walker--84.

North Brookfield-Jason Bigelow, Esq.-72.

Oakham-Capt. Silas Bullard--80.

Westborough--Capt. Seth Morse-90.

Rutland-Widow Pamelia Saunders-57.

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