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The porters, who have their fettled ftations in va- 

 rious parts of the city, and were only waiting till fome- 

 body wanted their fervice ; 



The callefTari, the fellows and lads, who Hand in the 

 great fquares with calefhes, looking after their horfes, 

 and ready to attend any body that calls them out ; 



Sea-faring men, fmoaking their pipes in the molo ; 



Fifhermen, who lie balking in the fun, becaufe per- 

 haps the wind is unfavourable for putting off to fea. I 

 remarked likewife numbers, palling and repairing, but 

 moil of them bore with them the tokens of their acti- 

 vity. Of beggars there were none to be feen, except 

 fuch as were complete cripples, or rendered infirm by 

 age, or impotent by difeafe. The more I looked about 

 me, the more accurately I obferved, the fewer I could 

 perceive, either of the lower or of middling claries, 

 either in the morning or through the greater part of 

 the day, of any age, or of either fex, that could pro- 

 perly be called idle vagabonds. 



But, for rendering what I advance more credible and 

 apparent, I mull: enter a little into particulars. The 

 very children are bulled in various ways. A great 

 number of them bring fiih for fale to town from Santa 

 Lucia ; others are very often feen about the arfenals, or 

 wherever carpenters are at work, employed in gathering 

 up the chips and pieces of wood, or by the fea-lide 

 picking up fticks and whatever elfe is drifted alhore; 

 which, when their bafket is full, they carry away. 

 Children of two or three years old, who can fcarcely 

 crawl along upon the ground, in company with boys 

 of five or fix, are employed in this petty trade. From 

 hence they proceed with their balkets into the heart of 



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