The country of The ring and the book . ong to one passage, and the doors of theremaining half to the other. This lessens the proba-bility of prisoners meeting, and at the same timeallows of a more complete surveillance of the cellif a warder be on duty in each passage. On the side of each of the corridors is a walled-inexercise yard, open to the air, and approached fromthe corridor by two doors. The cells have no win-dows, being lit only from the roof. Thus it is thatan occupant of one of these rooms is not only ab-solutely isolated, but can see nothing of the outerworld but a limited square o
The country of The ring and the book . ong to one passage, and the doors of theremaining half to the other. This lessens the proba-bility of prisoners meeting, and at the same timeallows of a more complete surveillance of the cellif a warder be on duty in each passage. On the side of each of the corridors is a walled-inexercise yard, open to the air, and approached fromthe corridor by two doors. The cells have no win-dows, being lit only from the roof. Thus it is thatan occupant of one of these rooms is not only ab-solutely isolated, but can see nothing of the outerworld but a limited square of sky. In Plate 15 the structure to be seen on the roofis composed of this row of cells with the connectedyards, the long wall (against the sky line) that facesthe spectator being the boundary of one of the exer-cise courts. The two windows at the end, above thecornice, light the two corridors described, while theraised structure between them is the terminal part ofthe single line of cells. The two side windows openinto a latrine. 136. The New Prisons Browning, with great dramatic effect, places Guidoscell in the basement of the building, and describesthe count as sitting On a stone bench in a close fetid cell,Where the hot vapour of an agony,Struck into drops on the cold wall, runs downHorrible worms made out of sweat and tears. I was assured that there are no underground cellsin the prison, and, furthermore, in the Old YellowBook it says: The condemned were made to godownstairs, and were placed upon separate carts to bedrawn to the place of execution. It is evident, there-fore, that the condemned cells were in the upperstoreys of the jail. There is no room in the present jail that has thereputation, however doubtful, of having been a torturechamber; yet in this prison Guido and his accompliceswere assuredly subject to the torture, while Silvagni,in the work already quoted, writes: There was atorture chamber in the Carceri Nuove, which certainlyremained intact up to 1809, when
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