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Journey from Canandaigua to Auburn - First sight of an American country funeral - Visit to the State prison Condition of the establishment - Act of the legislature respecting prison labour - Statistics of crime, education, and intemperance - Moral and religious reform - Description of the edifice and its cells - Discipline and treatment of the convicts-visit to the chapel during divine service - Defects of the Auburn system of prison discipline - Opinions of Dr. Lieber of South Carolina - Objections to the Penn sylvania system answered - Opinions of British inspectors on the Auburn system - Superiority of the Philadelphia system - Description of the town of Auburn.
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