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individual precisely coincides with the brief notices published by Dr. Morrison, and with some of the lengthened details laid down in Grosier's History of China, vol. IV., chap. 11.
The Yushing kwan, or the temple of the Tau sect at the North gate, is a very large and extensive edifice. It lies close under and within the city walls, and is covered in at the back by a thick grove of trees. The avenue, that leads from the outer lodge to the 'sanc- torum,' is clean and cool. It is shaded over with the branches of some lofty tress, that rise on each side of the walk, and throw a sombre quiet over the whole place. The venerable priest, a man of short stature and slender make, but of mild and genteel manners, politely volunteered to show us round the building.
We passed from one apartment to another, through this corridor into that, and in the immense building did not meet with more inmates than half a dozen of the sacerdotal order. The spacious chambers, rooms, and halls are tenanted by sculptured, carved and painted images, of all sizes, shapes, and ranks, male and female, young and aged, animal, human, devilish, and imagino-divine. The spirit of some of the inscriptions is excellent, but awfully misapplied.* * *
As the Foundling hospital, (the Yuhying táng 2) was over the way, we begged the priest to introduce us to the building and its inmates. To the left hand of the outer porch is a crib, upon which' the abandoned infant may be laid. Over the door are emblazoned the characters, kiáu ching páu ch'ih. nurture to matu- rity and protect the babes. Or crossing the threshold, you' open' a' finely paved square. To the right and to the left, there is a side door, with the word's nái fáng Th F; i: e. ‘inilk room,' or nursery, upon it. A number of coarse looking women were peeping through the lattice at us, with squalid babies at their breasts, and squalid boys and girls at their heels. These women are the mitses, and these children the foundlings. Each nurse has two or three to look after. But I' have rarely witnessed such a collection of filthy, unwashen, ragged brats. There are at present in the institution from 60 to 70 male and female children. One side of the house is appropriated to the girls, and the other to the boys. We got admittance into the girls nursery, which consists of from 20 to 30 roonis; in two or three flights running the one behind the other. The boys' nursery is its exact counterpart in filth, as in everything else. ments of the housekeeper or superintendent, looked mg- a good contrast to what we had just seen.
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