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the fatigues of further travel, to the home of its appointed 
nurfe. We omit to think how many children mutt unavoid- 
ably perifh by this mifmanagement. 
How far better would it be if the deferted infant were to: 
be reared in the vicinity of its native fpot, without any watfte - 
of that little portion of vital ftrength which is. its fole. inhe- 
ritance ! 
Peruaps alfo this plan might be politic on. another: account. 
It might be right to leave in the mother’s power to. watch un- 
feen the growth of her offspring. If fhe had refigned it through 
poverty, fortune might change, and put it in her power to 
relieve the community from the burden of her charge. If fhe 
had deferted it through fhame, the filent memorial of her mif- 
demeanour perpetually haunting her, like a warning fpirit, 
might awaken in her mind a fenfe ef contrition and a pur- 
pofe of atonement by protecting and befriending (whenever it 
might lie in her power) the unfortunate fruit. of her tranf{- 
greffion. 
SEcoNDLy, Care ought to be taken that foundlings receive 
good treatment while at nurfe.- 
Tuts cannot be accomplifhed without frequent infpection. 
of the children, and actual vifitation of their nurfes habita- 
tions. I am fanguine in my expectation that this may be done, 
not only without expence, but in the moft effe@tual manner. 
Why. 
