This is all weighed or measured out each day by the superintendent of the kitchen. The bread is well baked, and the provisions well cooked by some of the convicts employed for that purpose. Their provisions are put in small wooden vessels called kids, which are placed on racks, one of which each prisoner takes as he retires from labor to his cell, in which he is locked, and where silently he eats his repast. If any convict requires more food, on making his wants known, he is supplied from the kitchen.

" At the close of the day, in long lines they march to their respective cells, accompanied by their keepers, and being locked in, partake of their food and indulge in repose. Each cell has a bunk of wood or frame made of pine, six feet long and two wide, four or six inches from the floor, four blankets, a bible, pint cup for their coffee, small tin cup for vinegar, an iron spoon, a comb, and towel. These are all kept clean or made so when otherwise. From twelve to fourteen convicts are employed in washing the clothes and bedding of the prisoners ; some others do the cooking; and once a week they are all shaved by a convict who acts as barber.

" Tlie tailoring is done by convict tailors, who make and repair all the prisoners' garments. Clean underclothes are* placed in their cells each week. At night they are carefully 'watched by a keeper and four armed guards, who pace the galleries noiselessly with socks on their feet -- observe that all is safe -- notice every noise, and are prepared to quell any disturbance that might possibly arise. This latter is, however, almost impossible, as each prisoner is in a small cell by himself, and secured by powerful bolls and bars.