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[150]. See E. F. Du Cane, Punishment and Prevention of Crime, chap. iii. p. 43, etc. London, 1885.
[151]. Hall’s Chronicle, p. 632, ed. of 1809.
[152]. P. 353. London, 1730.
[153]. Creighton, Epidemics, chap. vii. p. 383.
[154]. Vol. ii. p. 48. London, 1827.
[155]. State of the Prisons, p. 10, ed. of 1780.
[156]. Ibid. p. 13.
[157]. Ibid. p. 12.
[158]. There were always a few poor creatures who, although sentenced to transportation, were left behind to remain in prison, a fate worse than exile and perhaps worse than death. See Dept. Com., 1895, Appendix, p. 459.