PHILADELPHIA. 
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mined. Some imagine, that it will be con¬ 
verted into a city hotel; others, that it will be 
destined for the residence of the governor of 
the state. For the latter purpose, it would be 
unfit in the extreme, the salary of the governor 
being so inconsiderable, that it would not en¬ 
able him to keep up an establishment suit¬ 
able to a dwelling of one-fourth part the size 
©fit. 
The hospital, for f its airiness, for its conve¬ 
nient accommodation for the sick and infirm, 
and for the neatness exhibited throughout 
every part of it, cannot be surpassed by any 
institution of the kind in the world. The 
plan of the building is in the form of the let¬ 
ter H. At present but one wing and a part 
of the centre are finished ; but the rest of the 
building is in a state of forwardness. It is two 
stories high, and underneath the whole are 
cells for lunatics. Persons labouring under 
any disorder of body or mind are received into 
this hospital, excepting such as have diseases 
that are contagious, and of a malignant na¬ 
ture ; such patients, however, have the advice 
of the attending physicians gratis, and are sup¬ 
plied with medicine from the hospital dis¬ 
pensary. 
The productive stock of this hospital, in the 
year 1793, was estimated at 17,065/. currency; 
besides w’hich there are estates belonging to it 
