quienes se paga anualmente una suma estipulada. A aquellos que pueden ayudarse un poco a sí mismos, o tienen amigos de quienes obtienen algunos socorros, insuficientes sin embargo para su total sustento, se les dan ayudas suplementarias que les permiten vivir desahogadamente en sus propias casas o en las de sus amigos. Los vagabundos sin propiedad ni vocación visibles son colocados en casas de labor, donde se les viste, alimenta, aloja bien y se les hace trabajar. Casi el mismo método de proveer para los pobres prevalece en todos nuestros estados; y desde Savannah hasta Portsmouth rara vez se encontrará a un mendigo. En las grandes ciudades, en verdad, a veces se presentan.
Estos son por lo común extranjeros, que nunca han obtenido vecindad en ninguna parroquia.
I never yet faw a native American beging in the ftreets or highways. A fubfif- tence is eafily gained here: and if, by misfortunes, they are thrown on the charities of the world, thofe provided by their own country are fo comfortable and fo certain, that they never LI think of relinquifhing them to become flrolling beggars. Their fituation too, when fick, in the family of a good farmer, where every member is emulous to do them kind offices, where they are vifited by all the neighbours, who bring them the Uttle rarities which their fickly appetites may crave, and who take by rotation the nightly watch over them, when their condition requires it, is with- out comparifon better than in a general hofpital, where fick, the dying, and the dead are crammed together, in the same rooms, and often in the same beds. The difadvantages, infeparable from general hofpitals, are such as can never be coun- terpoised by all the regularities of medi- cine and regimen. Nature and kind nur- fmg save a much greater proportion in our plain way, at a fmaller expence, and with lefs abufe. One branch only of hof- pital inftitution is wanting with us; that is, a general eftablifliment for thofe la- bouring under difficult cafes of chirurgery. The aids of this art are not equivocal.