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being punished with the lash.

The prisoners work thirteen hours a day
including one hour to dinner, the whole sit down
to their meals in a large dining hall at long
tables placed parallel to each other pointing all
one way which affords the keepers and overseers
an opportunity to see every face through small loop
holes of a chamber where they themselves are perfectly
concealed from the view of the prisoners

The great object of this System imprisonment
is that the convicts shall be made by labour not only
to defray all the expenses of the establishment but
realize a profit to the Province. The rope walk alone
even in the present incomplete state of the edifice
lets together with the labour of 15 Convicts who are
employed in manufacture of rope for £500 per
annum. - It was in this department of the establishment
that I saw the notorious Hart at work
the projector of the Coburg conspiracy the history
of which I have given in the last Chapter. With
him was Baker and several other of the Sympathizers
- three of whom are subjects of the United States
- In the Smiths shop I saw Willson, and Williams
named also in the last chapter

A hideous looking man a mulatto
heavily chained was breaking stones in a
Shed by himself - This man had been sentenced
to death for ill treatment to a young white girl
on her return from market - The day for his
death was appointed - The gallows erected