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solitary confinement, with careful supervision, has any other effect than that of amelior-ating the condition of the prisoners. The grand object of education should be to make

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men think, and the opportunity to do so can only be afforded when they are removedfrom haunts in which they see and hear what stimulates them to actions of wrong, andreceive no inducement to do what is right: notions on these subjects may possiblynever have been presented to them, and when committed to the care and superintendenceof the officers of such establishments, they may, for the first time, be led to comprehendthat their own means of subsistence is not necessarily connected with injury and outragetowards their fellow-creatures; and what may be the result of such a dawn in the mind,no one can predict. Cleanliness in this establishment is strictly attended to ; all the pro-visions with which the prisoners are served are of the best quality of their kinds, and theproportions duly given out to each. Water is abundantly supplied from triangularcisterns, fixed in the angle of each cell; the gaslight is immediately over the table, seen inthe section, to the right of which is placed a three-legged stool; under the window is theearthenware basin and water-closet: these are all shown on the plan, and are more es-pecially detailed in the several figures which succeed. The works for all these conveniences,particularly those of the plumber, are admirably executed, creditable alike to the workmanand the architect. In the management of such apparently simple details far greater in-genuity is required than is generally imagined or is usually bestowed upon them, and at thisprison they are models of their kind.

The double supply cock, which communicates with the washing-basin and soil-pan, is