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flour can be furnished daily by this mill, which works night and 
day; twelve workmen are sufficient to attend to all the opera¬ 
tions. The owner said he could do with fewer, but was unwil¬ 
ling to dismiss them. The engine has three boilers, one is unem¬ 
ployed, to be cleaned and to be in reserve in case of an accident; 
from the roof of the mill there is a fine prospect over the city 
and harbour. 
Mr. Thomas, who is one of the trustees, accompanied us to the 
Alms-house, nearly three miles distant from town, which was 
erected four years ago, at the expense of the state of Mary¬ 
land. The house consists in a centre building, composed of the 
dwelling of the superintendent, office, and store-house; farther off 
are two insulated wings, the one for the men, the other for the fe¬ 
males and children. The latter are brought to the Alms-house 
by their parents, or they are the children of disorderly parents 
taken up by public authority. Several of the paupers are in¬ 
trusted with the care of these unfortunate creatures; two school¬ 
masters, who, by drunkenness, had been reduced to beggary, and 
lived as paupers in the house, taught them to read and write. 1 
observed, with regret, that they were both armed with whips. The 
poor sleep in large airy rooms, the sick excepted, who are in 
separate infirmaries situated in the wings of the building; each 
one has a separate bed. Some infirm females only were in sepa¬ 
rate apartments, where three or four occupied one room. Each 
wing has three stories and one under ground, containing the 
kitchen, the wash-house, and bake-house; the bread used here is 
white and very good. Their meals are excellent: four times a 
week they have meat, twice vegetables; and on Fridays, as there 
are many Catholics, herrings. The building contains two large 
court-yards, with all the shops necessary for several mechanics, 
a large kitchen garden and all its dependencies of husbandry. It 
is situated on an elevated ground of cleared woods, a considera¬ 
ble number of acres of land appertaining to it, are cultivated by 
the poor. They are employed according to their strength and 
capacity, particularly in working for the house and in making 
their clothes. All the articles not used by the establishment are 
sold. Every poor person on entering the house, is shorn, takes 
a bath, and is clothed. For his clothes he becomes a debtor to 
the establishment, and cannot be dismissed until he has paid for 
them by his labour. The directors decide at this time if such a 
person is able to make his living in an honest manner, and resolve 
upon his discharge. Those who conduct themselves ill in the 
house are punished by solitary confinement If they are sick on 
entering the house, two physicians, who are attached to the es¬ 
tablishment, visit them daily and alternately; four students, also, 
