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CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE. 203
have the privilege of giving free admission to any one
whom they choose to introduce. It contains many
oriental articles of interest and value, particularly fullsized
figures of individuals of different ranks among
the Eastern nations, each in his proper costume.
Unitarian Church.-A newUnitarian stone church
has recently been erected here. It cost $35,000.
The pews were sold to the subscribers by auction (or
" at auction," as it is called here). They were set
up at $300 each pew, and the best brought $700.
They are very handsomely furnished.
Nov. 13. Ther. 42 . Thle House of Correction.
-The house of correction in South Boston, in its
general economy, resembles the state prison. It is
used for the confinement, only of persons convicted of
the less heinous kinds of offences. No punishment
is used to enforce the jail discipline, except the
shower-bath, with abundance of water.
Criminal Jurisprudence.-Judge Thacher of the
Municipal court has attended my whole course of lectures,
and he accompanied me to.day to the House of
Correction. He told me that he concurs essentially
with my views of the mental constitution of criminals;
and that many facts indicate that some of them
are incapable of resisting the temptations to crime
presented to them by the ordinary condition of society.
He says, that it has been a great comfort to
him, as judge of the city's criminal court, to have the
"' House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders" (described
on p. 171), and this " House of Correction;'"
and also a farm-school on one of the islands in the
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/243/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.