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which are sometimes called by the startling designation, the 

 dead markets, by which is only intended markets for the sale of 

 slaughtered animals, beef, mutton, pork, lamb, veal, &c. &c., 

 and which in London are quite worth a visit. The largest of 

 these, in this great metropolis, are Newgate and Leadenhall 

 Markets ; and it is a curious fact, that the former occupies a 

 building (the magnificent entrance of which still remains, with 

 its high and ornamented archway, and its aisles, with the old 

 columns, form the meat-stalls) which was formerly a literary 

 institution, or college. Instead of food for the mind, it now 

 furnishes food for the body ; and instead of the purveyors of intel 

 lectual provisions, poetry, philosophy, eloquence, and science, 

 here stand the purveyors of mutton, pork, and beef a very ig 

 noble office, and a very humiliating descent, as some refined 

 and sensitive persons would deem it : but alas ! what would 

 become of science, philosophy, eloquence, or even poetry itself, 

 without mutton, pork, and beef? The philosophical Edward 

 Search, in his most admirable work, &quot; The Light of Nature,&quot; 

 says, &quot; that he has found a draught of Daffy s Elixir, on getting up 

 in the morning, a powerful means of grace, dispelling doubts 

 and despondencies, and strengthening and brightening his faith ; &quot; 

 and though, through a foolish pride, we may be disposed to deny 

 or not to recognize our relations in humble life, as citizens some 

 times &quot;cut&quot; their country cousins when they meet them in 

 town, yet the stomach and understanding are near neighbors, 

 and the one absolutely dependent on the other. What nature 

 hath joined no man can put asunder. 



The markets in London display their meats to considerable 

 advantage ; and besides the great markets, meat shops prevail 

 all over the town, and are found in some of the best streets 

 intermingled with other kinds of shops of the most splendid 

 description. Even Bond Street, the very emporium of fashion, 

 elegance, and taste, has its meat shops, where whole carcasses of 

 mutton are suspended before the doors in long rows, as, under 

 the bloody code of former years, prisoners at the close of the 

 sessions used to be suspended at the Old Bailey, except in this 

 case in an inverse order, the heads of the sheep being down 

 wards, as mutton-heads are apt to get inverted. A fine lady, in 

 passing from one milliner s or jeweller s shop to another, must 

 take very good care, lest, instead of encountering a fine beau, to 



