72 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1818. 



Feb. 28. makers. It is argued, that, if there 

 were no hogs in the streets, people 

 would not throw out their orts of 

 flesh and vegetables. Indeed! What 

 would they do with those orts, then? 

 Make their hired servants eat them? 

 The very proposition would leave 

 them to cook and wash for them 

 selves. Where, then, are they to 

 fling these effects of superabun 

 dance ? Just before I left New York 

 for Philadelphia, I saw a sow very 

 comfortably dining upon a full 

 quarter part of what appeared to 

 have been ajfine leg of mutton. How 

 many a family in England would, if 

 within reach, have seized this meat 

 from the sow ! And, are the tyrants, 

 who have brought my industrious 

 countrymen to that horrid state of 

 misery, never to be called to account? 

 Are they always to carry it as they 

 now do? Every object almost, that 

 strikes my view, sends my mind and 

 heart back to England. In viewing 

 the ease and happiness of this people, 

 the contrast fills my soul with in 

 dignation, and makes it more and 

 more the object of my life to assist 



