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I!Hospital des Enfans trouves, or Notre Datne de la Miseri-corde.

In England there is a splendid hospital for foundlings,which was proposed to have been established seventeenyears before it actually took place, from obstacles thrownin the way of the benevolent founder, Captain ThomasCoram , so that it was not founded until about the year1739, or in the thirteenth year of King George II .

A lying-in hospital was also founded bv her late Majesty,at Bayswater, near Tyburn-turnpike, and removed recentlyto Paddington; besides one instituted in the City-road asearly as 1771. In the same road is also an Orphan WorkingSchool, for the support of necessitous children, establishedin 1773. An institution in Westminster-road, originally calledthe Westminster Lying-in Hospital, was founded in 1765.There is also a lying-in hospital in Brownlow-street, Drnry-fane, which was founded in 1749, and licensed for thereception of pregnant women in the thirteenth year of thereign of his present Majesty, King George III .

In this laud, where divine benevolence has peculiar plea-sure, there have been established funds, repeatedly, forrelieving poor women, when confined in child-bed, with me-dicines and suitable necessaries for their situation, underthe influence of many benevolent and noble personages.

To enumerate every charitable institution in London andits vicinity, would require many pages; want of room ren-ders it impossible we can comply with our earnest desires.

GEOGRAPHY.

Geography is a science which treats of the situation,boundaries, extent, natural and political, or civil divisions ofthe earth; its name comes from Tro, the earth, and ypatpia, tomeasure, or delineate. The articles tides, winds, and meteo-rology, are likewise usually considered as component partsof this science. Geography is also considered as ancient,or that description of the earth generally known to antiquity;and modern, comprehending the latest discoveries, includingthe present political division of its surface into empires,kingdoms, republics, &c.

The first philosopher on record, who reduced geographyto a science, was Hipparchus , of Alexandria, who flou-rished between 160 and 125 years before Christ. He deter-