ïSS STUDIES OF NATURE. 



with apricot-trees, figs, coleworts, and lettuces ; a^ 

 fifth in the avenues of the city, in the heart of a 

 vineyard, and fo on. 



It is an eafy matter, undoubtedly, to find, every 

 where, lodgings of this defcription, and at an eafy 

 rate; but it may not be fo eafy to find perfons of 

 probity for hofts and neighbours. There is, it 

 muft be admitted, much depravity among the 

 lower orders ; but there are various methods which 

 may be employed to find out fuch as are good and 

 honeft : and with them I commence my refearches 

 after pleafure. A new Diogenes^ 1 am fet out in 

 learch of men. As I look only for the miferable, 

 I have no occafion to ufe a lançern. I get up at 

 d^y-break, and ftep, to partake of a firfi: mefs, 

 into a church ftill but half illumined by the day- 

 light : there I find poor mechanics come to im- 

 plore God's bleffing on their day'$ labour. Piety, 

 exalted above all refpedl to Man, is one alTured 

 proof of probity : cheerful fubmiffion to labour is 

 another. I perceive, in raw and rainy weather, a, 

 whole family fquat on the ground, and weeding 

 the plants of a garden*; here, again, are good. 



people, 



* Perfons eiTipioyed in the culture of vegetables are, in gene- 

 ral, a better fort of people. Plants have their Theology im- 

 prefled upon them. I one day, however, fell in with a hufband- 

 nir.n who was an atheifl. It is true, he had npt picked up his 



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