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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Plate

1. A Culprit before a Magistrate.
2. A Culprit conveyed to Prison.
3. A Culprit conducted to Trial.
4. An Offender undergoing the Bastinade.
5. Twisting a Man's Ears.
6. Punishment of the Swing.
7. Punishing a Boatman.
8. Punishing an Interpreter.
9. The Rack.
10. Torturing the Fingers.
11. Burning a Man's Eyes with Lime.
12. A Malefactor chained to an Iron Bar.
13. Punishment of the Wooden Collar.
14. A Man fastened to a Block of Wood.
15. A Malefactor in a Cage.
16. Punishment of a Woooden Tube.
17. Hamstringing a Malefactor.
18. Close confinement.
19. Conducting an Offender into Banishment.
20. A Malefactor conducted to Execution.
21. The capital Punishment of the Cord.
22. The Manner of Beheading.