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just mentioned, the former are in two spacious rooms above, one of which 

 is furnished with a long table and forms. A few additional prison comforts 

 may be obtained in the jailor's house, but the cost is heavy, and the 

 prisoners are seldom able and willing to defray it. I am told that there is 

 in no shape a jail delivery, and that some of the prisoners have remained 

 in custody until the crimes, for which they were committed have been 

 forgotten. No one, it is probable, would dare to set at liberty a culprit 

 thus circumstanced ; few, it may be, would presume to account him 

 already punished beyond measure. — The fort of the Ilha das Cobras con- 

 tains the State Prisons, and these also, are large, damp, and hopeless. 



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