tion of a new state prison in the first or second senatorial districts, "vvhich the commissioners appointed for the purpose, thought proper to locate in Mount Pleasant, Sing Sing, owing to its exhausiless bodies of marble, its healthy situation, and its accessibility by water. On the 14ih of May, 1826, Capt. E. Lynds, former agent of the Auburn prison, with one hundred convicts in obedience to instructions, proceeded to Sing Sing, and commenced the erection of the state prison there. This was completed in 1S29, and contained eight hundred cells. By the addition of several additional counties to this prison district greatly increasing the number of convicts, it was discovered that these accommodations were in^ sufficient, and two hundred more cells were ordered to be added, which result was obtained by adding another, or fifth story to the prison building, which addition was completed in 18!-J1.

" In May, 1828. the convicts then in the old state prison in this city were" removed to Sing Sing, and the old prison here was emptied of its inmates and abandoned forever as a prison.

The Mount Pleasant prison at Sing Sing is thirty-three miles from this city, on the eastern shore of the Hudson river, and the ground on which it stands is about ten feet above high water mark. The prison grounds contain one hundred and thirty acres, and the wharf is approachable by vessels drawing twelve feet of water. The prison keeper's house, work-shops, (fee, are built of rough dressed stone. The prison for the males is 480 feet in length from north to south, and 44 in width, fronting towards the west or Hudson river. This building is five stories high, containing a line of 100 cells in each story on the west side, and as many more on the east side, making 1000 cells in all.