22 OBSERVATIONS. 



The institution was undoubtedly originally 

 good, and for some years proved of^ the 

 greatest public utihty ; whether, hke many 

 other of the most valuable institutions, it has 

 been prostituted to the worst of purposes, re- 

 mains with the opinion of every reader to 

 decide. For my own part, however highly 

 they may be ex^tolled, or extensively puffed, 

 by the parties interested in their success, I 

 must confess, I am never included within 

 their walls, but I conceive myself in the very 

 centre of Chesterfield's '' sink of iniquity,'* 

 and consider a sound horse from a repository 

 equally rare with a capital prize in the 

 lottery. 



In the midst of these very necessary consi- 

 derations, it must be remembei'ed, such heb- 

 dominal sales are not without their acknow- 

 ledged conveniences ; for although they are 

 by no means calculated to hy at, they a^e 

 most admirably adapted for selling. Here 

 you may, in compliance with custom and the 

 full force oi fashion, get rid of the blind, lame, 

 restive, broken-XDinded, splented, spavined, or 

 glandered horses, without remorse or fear of 

 punishment. The seller, whether a nominal 



