Ossining

        "Sing-Sing, so called after an Indian chief who inhabited the place sixty years ago but whose tribe has since retired into the interior, is situated on the Hudson eleven leagues to the north of New-York. It's a town of 1000 to 1200 souls which has been rendered famous by its prison. . . the most vast in the United States. . . . We have come here with the intention of examining it from top to bottom; we have already been here a week, and we experience a well- being that you can't conceive. The extreme agitation in which we were obliged to live in New-York, the number of visits we had to make and receive each day began to weary us a little. Here we have the best employed and most peaceful existence. We live with a very decent American family which holds us in great consideration. We have made the acquaintance in the village of several persons whom we go to see when we are free. . . ."

        Tocqueville, letter to his father (Pierson 109)

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