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the greatest variety of richest hues ; though it is 

 extremely difficult to obtain a subject so imme- 

 diately after death as to make the observation, 

 except by waiting in the slaughter-house : in the 

 human subject this is obviously impossible; but 

 probably, if the opportunity of examination could 

 be found, the choroid coat would display a similar 

 richly-coloured carpet in man. I may observe in 

 passing, that those who are desirous of examining 

 the organ for themselves, will find the eye of the 

 pig approach most nearly to the shape and con- 

 struction of our own. 



The choroides in the horse is blue in its appear- 

 ance, and it is very important to remember the dis- 

 tinction. I once bought a horse for my cabriolet, 

 through the intervention of one of those go-betweens 

 that I have described : the man had for many 

 years been a Newmarket jockey, and to do him 

 justice, found me a very serviceable and showy 

 animal. It was a large chestnut gelding, nearly 

 sixteen hands high, with excellent action, and the 

 price was but twenty-five pounds : he had a slight 

 blemish on one knee, but so slight as not to be 

 observable without close inspection. When he 

 showed me the animal I was at once satisfied that 

 there was something wrong, for it was a fair sixty- 

 guinea horse ; and to have deducted ten for so 



