nd contains 120 cells, each about three and one-half feet
wide, seven feet long and seven high, the bedsteads being of iron and
made to turn up. The south wing, or old part, contains a tenement for
the deputy and cells for the female prisoners.

The warden occupies the main building, or middle part. Here, too, are
the cook room for the male prisoners, the chapel, the office, guard
room, hospital, dormitories for the guards and overseers, and the
reception room, in which the library is kept.

The prison yard is surrounded on three sides by a granite wall, perhaps
sixteen feet high, the prison itself constituting the wall on the fourth
side. In the yard are two buildings of brick, each two stories high, one
much larger than the other: the smaller, on its lower floor, affording a
wash-room, tailor's shop, &c., the second story and attic rooms used for
storage or any needed mechanical purpose, sometimes as shoe shops; the
larger building is devoted to bedstead manufacturing, the machinery
driven by steam.

From this engine these two buildings are warmed by means of steam pipes,
the boiling in the wash-room being done by the same. The hall is
furnished with a steam boiler, which not only warms that, but also the
guard and reception rooms, and the chapel, and the steam is used in the
men's cook room, all other warming and heating in the prison being done
by wood fires. To economize fuel as much as possible, a steam pipe has
been extended from the engine room to the prison to conduct the waste
steam of the shop boilers for use in those apartments.

The female prisoners eat at a table in the warden's kitchen and from the
same food as goes to his own table. The men have a prescribed diet,
called rations, the allowance of each being dealt out in a tin
basin,--meat, potatoes, gravy, &c., all together, the potatoes unpared.
Coffee is given in a tin dipper. The meals being ready, the men are
marched through an entry by a long table standing contiguous to the
kitchen and loaded with their rations, each taking what belongs to him,
carrying it to his cell and partaking in solitude. Their mode of eating
is quite a curiosity. They generally use their beds for tables, and each
has a knife, fork and spoon in his cell of which he takes the exclusive
care. He fishes out his potatoes and pares them; but where shall he put
the parings, dripping as they are? He has no extra dish. Then how shall
he wash his knife, fork and spoon? He can use h