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metic, particularly in mental calculation, and at the age of twelve 
years they are bound out to farmers. Several of the boys were 
very expert in mental calculation, and solved the following ques¬ 
tions with great facility:—How much is three hundred and 
twenty multiplied by three hundred and forty; how many days 
constitute three years seven months and twenty-one days? The 
manner of instruction is Lancasterian. The principal directors 
of this institution are Friends, among whom Mr. Collins is said 
to be the most distinguished. 
With Mr. Eddy, I also visited the state-prison, which contains 
about five hundred and fifty prisoners of both sexes, and can re¬ 
ceive seven hundred. The building stands in the village of 
Greenwich, was built about twenty years, and at that time stood 
quite insulated; since that period the population has so rapidly in¬ 
creased, that Greenwich is united with New York, and three 
sides of the prison are surrounded with rows of houses; the fourth 
faces the Hudson river. In front of the house are the offices and 
stores, behind this are two courts, which are separated by a 
church; one yard is for males, and the other for females. The 
dwellings surround the yards, and are three stories high. The 
prisoners sleep eight in a room, on straw mats, covered with 
woollen blankets; every sleeping room is separately locked; the 
eating-hall is spacious; the fare, good brown bread, soup, and 
three times a week meat; on other days, fish. The workshops are 
in appropriate buildings, partly built of wood, standing in sepa¬ 
rate yards. You find among them all kinds of handicrafts, and 
all domestic utensils and clothing are manufactured. Articles in¬ 
tended for sale, are generally wooden ware, brushes, and other 
household utensils. The prisoners receive no money, and if they 
are backward in working, or otherwise behave ill, they are sub¬ 
jected to solitary confinement, which soon brings them to their 
senses. There is nothing to object to this building, except that 
the stairs are of wood, and there is otherwise too much wood 
about the house, which appears to me dangerous, in case of fire. 
On the second Sunday of my stay in this city, I went with the 
consul, Mr. Zimmerman, to a German Lutheran church, where 
the venerable Mr. Geisenheimer, performed the service in the 
German language. It was a curious accident, that, when I en¬ 
tered the church, they sung an ancient hymn, which was com¬ 
posed by Duke William, of Saxe-Weimar. My ancestor cer¬ 
tainly never expected that one of the unworthiest of his descend¬ 
ants should, for the first time in his life hear, in the new world, 
that he had composed church music, and that this hymn should 
originally greet his ears in New York. The church is very old 
and inelegant; the congregation was plain: however, they are not 
in debt, and the church is moreover said to possess a good fund. 
