What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

PENITENTIARY.
having been the reformers of the old and now obsolete systems
of imprisonment among civilized nations; and many of the
separate State Governments having made liberal appropriations
for the objects contemplated by the movement, which attracted
the earnest attention and inspection of the leading Powers of
Europe.
The prison edifice, planned, and now nearly finished, iader
the superintendence of Senor Pas Soldan, is unequalled by any
penitentiary in the United States, in general design, and in special adaptation to the prison system of associated labor in silence, with personal isolation at night. The whole premises are
enclosed by a stone wall thirty-five feet high, one side of which
has a portal giving admission directly to that part of the building in which are situated the various offices and the warden's
apartments. A main corridor leading thene, has on each side
store-rooms, and from it also diverges at right angles on each
side a smaller corridor, which communicates through strong
iron-grated doorways with a wing, in which are contained the
lodging cells, one hundred in number, for the female convicts.
The main corridor then connects at its further end through two
strongly-secnred doorways, with a rotunda or observatory three
stories in height, the upper being set apart as a chapel, whilst
from the other two stories radiate five corridors, communicating
with a corresponding number of wings, in which are admirablyconstructed workshops, kitchen, refectory, and cells for solitary
confinement of men at night. The total number of cells is one
thousand. The wings are two stories high, and in their construction and entire appointments for security, comfort, and
cleanliness, they surpass similar departments of all other prisons of the United States, the model penitentiaries of which I
have carefully examined. It is not my purpose to dwell on
details which might prove tedious and uninteresting; but it is
due to candor and justice to say, that while Sefior Pas Soldan
gratefully acknowledges his obligations to the States visited for
much and valuable information, and especially for the radiated
principle, which affords the greatest facilities for the conducting
of business and enforcement of discipline, yet has he, by thllorough knowledge of his subject, together with architectural skill
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