A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . h at a regular step, insingle file, and close together ; a difficultmarch, which requires strict often receive their food on re-turning from work, without stopping;for being marched through the kitchen,each takes his can from a table, and car-ries it to his cell. Religious services are often held inchapels connected with the prisons, andchaplains usually find many of the con-victs accessible to their private instruc-tions. Each cell has a Bible, and sab-bath-schools are often kept by benevo-lent people of the neighborhoo
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . h at a regular step, insingle file, and close together ; a difficultmarch, which requires strict often receive their food on re-turning from work, without stopping;for being marched through the kitchen,each takes his can from a table, and car-ries it to his cell. Religious services are often held inchapels connected with the prisons, andchaplains usually find many of the con-victs accessible to their private instruc-tions. Each cell has a Bible, and sab-bath-schools are often kept by benevo-lent people of the neighborhood. Insome cases, also, as in New York city,societies provide temporary lodgingsand work for discharged convicts, andotherwise interest themselves in theirwelfare. The Prison-Discipline Society, whichwas formed in Boston about twenty-fiveyears ago, early i-ecommended the prin-ciples on which the Auburn prison wasconducted, and greatly contributed totheir general adoption in the UnitedStates and foreisrn countries. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 175. Geneva Medical Giillege. Geneva.—This place is conspicuousamong the lake villages for the beautyof its appearance from the water. It |stands at the outlet of the lake of the jsame name, upon the western bank; Iand the houses of some of the morewealthy inhabitants occupy the summitof the higher ground, which rises onehundred and twenty feet, just behind thebusiest streets, and descends with a hastybut graceful slope to the water, adornedby the gardens, green with useful plants,and gay with blooming flowers. Thesurrounding country presents that gen-tly-varied surface peculiar to this partof New York, where, for many miles,the ground has the appearance of hav-ing been channelled from north to lowest depressions are occupied byseveral of the small lakes, while theheights of the intermediate ridges com-mand extensive and pleasing views overthe getitly-undulated country between. The settlement of Geneva was begunin the y
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