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and Penitentiary Houses upon do are so identical
in principle, that (even without adverting to the
vicinity between the first and the second floors of
the same edifice) a man may without much
apprehension of error venture to state them as
coming out of the same shop. —

Up Upon the principles I have thus ventured
to point to in the improved prisons in question,
present or future, one drawback from the goodness
of the economy — one great drawback and than an
unavoidable one — is the smallness of the scale.
Another is the shortness of the term which, in those
receptacles for petty offenders, the improved hands
have to learn the business in, and afford a
compensation, for the time and materials consumed
without profit, during the season of primaeval
awkwardness. —

Under these disadvantages, together with that
which results from the difference between the
wages of labour, as compared with the expence of
maintenance, here uand in America, I should not



20 or 21 times as much as in the case of Cold Bath
Fel Fields. Cold Bath Fields proved bad ground: Battersea
Rise was excellent ground. But Cold Bath Fields is up
and finished: and the case of Battersea Rise affords
neither finish nor commencement, nor any thing
but estimate. — expect

Identifier: | JB/116/616/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	616	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38149
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