"Dr. Duncan, in describing the cellar-houses of the manufacturing
districts, says[134]--'The cellars are ten or twelve feet square;
generally flagged, but frequently having only the bare earth for a
floor, and sometimes less than six feet in height. There is
frequently no window, so that light and air can gain access to the
cellar only by the door, the top of which is often not higher than
the level of the street. In such cellars ventilation is out of the
question. They, are of course dark; and from the defective drainage,
they are also very generally damp. There is sometimes a back cellar,
used as a sleeping apartment, having no direct communication with the
external atmosphere, and deriving its scanty supply of light and air
solely from the front apartment.'"--Vol. i. 447.

"One of the city missionaries, describing the state of the Mint
district in the city of London, says, 'it is utterly impossible to
describe the scenes, which are to be witnessed here, or to set forth
in its naked deformity the awful characters sin here assumes. * * *
_In Mint street, alone, there are nineteen lodging-houses._ The
majority of these latter are awful sinks of iniquity, and are used as
houses of accommodation. In some of them, both sexes sleep together
indiscriminately, and such acts are practised and witnessed, that
married persons, who are in other respects awfully depraved, have
been so shocked, as to be compelled to get up in the night and leave
the house. Many of the half-naked impostors, who perambulate the
streets of London in the daytime, and obtain a livelihood by their
deceptions, after having thrown off their bandages, crutches, &c.,
may be found here in their true character; some regaling themselves
in the most extravagant manner; others gambling or playing cards,
while the worst of language proceeds from their lips. Quarrels and