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Execution of the Punishments

With regard to the expedients to be employ'd
for rendering the <scene of confinement terrible
without being destructive, the following observations
may be attended to. They are extracted from a
pamphlet entitled A View of the Hard Labour
1778 Bill. Lond. 1778 p.

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I have found it to be the opinion of several
with whom

Many persons however are of opinion
that the circumstance of its being underground
is too essential to the in point of terror
to be omitted in the construction of a dungeon.
A dungeon under above ground, say they, is
a contradiction in terms: nor will any body regard
it. It may therefore be adviseable therefore perhaps to have the dungeons underground; but upon this
condition only and not otherwise, that they provided
they never be of those circumstances
which make them the destructive effects of
dungeons constructed in the manner in which it has
hitherto been customary to construct them can be obviated.
These are all owing to the want of a change of
air: which it should seem might be ensured by
means of fire. The way will be to make two outlets entrances
to the dungeon or suite of dungeons: at one entrance
should

Identifier: | JB/143/016/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	punishments
Image	002	Titles	instructions to the legislator
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48649
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