TREAD MILLS.

At Lewes, each prisoner walks at the rate of 6,600 feet in ascent per

day; at Ipswich, 7,450; at St. Alban’s, 8,000; at Bury, 8,650; at

Cambridge, 10,176; at Durham, 12,000; at Brixton, Guildford, and

Reading, the summer rate exceeds 13,000; while at Warwick, the summer

rate is about 17,000 feet in ten hours.[219]

[219] The Times.

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