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numerous members, perfectly separated from each
other, nevertheless unite in common repentance
and in common prayers.
The whole establishment is surrounded by a
high wall.
It is difficult to slate, with exactness, the
expense of building, for that depends on the greater
or less degree of ornament used, the price of
materials, wages &c.
If, however, in order to obtain some scale to
calculate by, we divide the whole expense of the
building of the penitentiary among the number of
cells, we find, that each cell, according to the Auburn
system, cost in the beginning 584 Dollars (1,460 R:dr
40 sk. B:co), but that the expense, in consequence
of experience and the observance of economy, was
lowered at Wethersfield to 150 Dollars (345 R:dr
B:co) M:r Wells, one of the inspectors, says, that
it may be still farther decreased to 180 Dollars
(200 R:dr B:co).
In the splendid prison built in the gothic
style at Cherry-hill, according to the Philadelphian
system, the expense of every cell amounted to
1,624 Dollars (4,069 R:dr B:co); but it has since
been decreased to 735 Dollars (1,837 R:dr B:co).
When, again, it is considered, that a day’s work
is paid with 1 Dollar, or 2 R:dr 24 sk. B:co: it
will be found that no proper comparison can be
instituted with those countries where wages are
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