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dress, are necessary in the management of such descrip- 

 tions, to render the details intelligible, and to give the 

 whole its full effect of order, dependence, connection, 

 and harmony. And in no case can these difficulties be 

 greater than in descriptions like those in which I am 

 now engaged, where the number of the objects and of 

 the details is so great that it is difficult to determine 

 which should be attended to first, and how far it may 

 safely be pursued, without danger of the others being 

 too far removed from their proper places, or excluded, 

 or forgotten. 



The various measures adopted and precautions taken, 

 in arresting the beggars, in collecting and distributing 

 alms, in establishing order and police among them, in 

 feeding and clothing the poor, and in establishing vari- 

 ous manufactures for giving them employment, are all 

 subjects which deserve and require the most particular 

 explanation ; yet those are not only operations which 

 were begun at the same time, and carried on together, 

 but they are so dependent upon each other that it is 

 almost impossible to have a complete idea of the one 

 without being acquainted with the others, or of treating 

 of the one without mentioning the others at the same 

 time. This, therefore, must be my excuse, if I am 

 taxed with want of method or of perspicuity in the de- 

 scriptions ; and, this being premised, I shall proceed 

 to give an account of the various objects and operations 

 which yet remain to be described. 



I have already observed how necessary it was to en- 

 courage, by every possible means, a spirit of industry 

 and emulation among those who, from leading a life of 

 indolence and debauchery, were to be made useful mem- 

 bers of society ; and I have mentioned some of the 



