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t)ONVÈNT OF ST. JlJAN DE DIOS; ETC. 83~{)bjeçtsofsorne interest to persons exhausted by a long and nearly uninterruptedjourney.Sorne leisure, too, the mind anxiously seeks for,!\vere it only to arrange its mass of new ideas.Lisbon alone presenteditself as the consummation of a11 this; and various and many things ofinterest indetail, of minute investigation, scaling and measuring, ascert.ainmentandcorrection, were p'rocrastinated through necessity at first,and ultimately as reluctantly, and equally unavoidably; abandoned al-, ,together. It became an effort to catch even the general ideas, where.so much unanticipated matter presented itself.ln the progress of life and travelling, good and evil present themselves,both in men and things; and such was the case here at Merida,where.îs the convent of San J nan de Dios, a large building, thoughcontainipg not more thall four monks. It was jnstituted by publiccharity.-·It lS a.mistake to suppose no such thing exists out of England.-'-There are in 'various cou~tries on the continent magnificent establishments,ând vast appropriations of funds: it is, on the contrary, rare tofind a country where the pOOl' are utterly neglected.of tbese good monks is to tend the sick POOl'.The occupationThere are no,," aboutforty such in the hospita1. Soldiers and sailors taken in are paid for by.Government, at~the rate of a pe~ettlZper day. Foreigners are paid forby the consulsoftheir 'respective nations. But aIl in want of aid are..adll1itted. H Ulllan nature and distress are the objects, and further no~uestions are asked. Sorne will say 'fhis is no good policy: perhapsIlOt; but it is goqd Christianity.,If a wounded man present hiInself,;'.he i~, if possible, cured, dismissed, and goes his way without further examination,\vhatever that way may. be.Frayle Pedro de Aransaenz was one or' these good Samaritans, andheiI1g out in the countryuponhis duties, and seeing strangers, he con­_ded that they rnight,wan.t assistance, and consequently made him­!I 2