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Letter 3d
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. |
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616 |
letter 3d |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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