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city has been much frequented, daring a long series 

 of years, by invaUds, who seek the benefit of its 

 famous mineral springs. The immense influx of 

 fashionable and wealthy visitors daring what is 

 called the Bath season, changes this city, at that 

 period, into one continued scene of gaiety and lux- 

 ury. Among the principal public places devoted to 

 fashionable resort and amusement, the following 

 may be enumerated : the grand pump room, the 

 public subscription library, the magnificent assem- 

 bly rooms, the theatre, Sydney Gardens, the Vaux- 

 hall of Bath, the subscription club-house in York 

 Buildings, the Bath and West of England subscrip- 

 tion rooms, &c. besides libraries, billiard rooms, &c. 

 too numerous to mention. The abbey church is one 

 of the purest specimens of the later style of English 

 architecture in this country. 



Two annual racing meetings are held at this 

 city ; a spring meeting about the end of April, 

 which continues two days, and a sammer meeting, 

 about the end of June, both of which are well at- 

 tended. Both are held on Lansdown Downs, 

 where an excellent course has been formed, with 

 every convenience for spectators. The spring 

 meeting is held the week after the Newmarket 

 Craven meeting. 



Ages from the 1st of January. 



The Lansdowne Trial Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 

 ft. for horses that never won (matches excepted) ; 



