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black nr coloured people, and fifty-nine white foreigners, viz, 
thirteen Englishmen, seventeen Irishmen, eight Scotchmen, four 
from Nova Scotia, two Canadians, one from the Cape of Good 
Hope, three West Indians, four Frenchmen, two Swedes, two 
Italians, one from Green Cape, one Portuguese, one German. 
Two hundred and twenty-two were sentenced for stealing, 
twenty-six for passing counterfeit money, sixteen for burglary, 
seven for attempted rape, six for attempting to murder, five for 
being incendiaries, eleven for forgery, and five, among whom 
were the three females, for robbery. 
The prisoners are employed in different occupations; one 
hundred and twenty-one were stone-cutters, twenty-seven for 
removing the stone, thirty joiners, eleven brush makers, eight 
weavers, six shoemakers, ten tailors, &c. There were eleven in 
the hospital, four in solitary confinement, and three invalids. 
The expenses of the prison amounted to forty-one thousand 
six hundred and ninety-five dollars for the maintenance of the 
prisoners, clothes, beds, medicine, and materials employed in the 
labours of the prisoners; and fifteen thousand nine hundred and 
twenty-six dollars for the officers, &c. Total of expenses, fifty- 
seven thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars. 
The income derived from the labours of the prisoners amount¬ 
ed to fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars, 
and thus the prison was not only of no expense to the state, but 
produced a profit of twelve hundred and twelve dollars! 
After leaving this remarkable building, the mayor accompani¬ 
ed us to Cambridge. A company of volunteers from Boston, the 
Washington Rangers, were training. The company were already 
departing when we arrived, but had the politeness to halt and re¬ 
peat their exercise again. They exhibited much skill. They are 
somewhat fantastically dressed in green, and armed with long 
rifles. I became acquainted with the officers, who were all young 
men of the best families. I also spoke with several Cambridge 
students, some of whom were dressed in a uniform, belonging to 
a volunteer company, consisting of students alone. 
We then went to Bunker’s Hill, near Charlestown. The space 
is small, but of great importance in American history. Connect¬ 
ed with the main land by a bridge, this field of battle lies on a 
small island and has two hills, the higher and most northern of 
which is called Bunker’s Hill; the southern, Breed’s Hill, com¬ 
mands Charlestown and the Boston Roads. In the year 1775, 
the Americans occupied this hill, and with their artillery, which 
was placed in a redoubt hastily thrown up, harassed the English 
garrison in Boston, and the fleet. On the morning of the 17th 
of June, the English made a sally, left Boston, landed on a point 
