430 Remarks^ 
In the hot summer of the year 1780 (the summer of the 
memorable Lord George Gordon Riots) I attended dur° 
ing the long vacation of the colleges at Oxford^ a course 
of anatomical lectures under Mr. Sheldon (who afterward 
published on the anatomy of the lymphatic system.) Af- 
ter that course, I, with several other anatomical students, 
attended veterinary dissections at a repository for dead 
horses in St. John’s, ClerkenwelL I there was taught 
how usefully the meanest and most trifling articles might 
be employed under the direction of scientific skill : and I 
have from that time ceased to wonder at the pre-eminence 
in manufactures which the English have obtained, who 
so well know the value of saving and of using, what the 
negligent ignorance of foreign artists would abandon as 
worthless. We have a tolerably good poem on the life 
and death of a blood horse, “ The high mettled racer,” 
tracing his progress from being the favourite of the turf, 
through all the grades of hardships, till he is worn out 
with hunger, labour and blows, in the cart of the scaven-. 
ger ; I fear, a faithful account, not much to the credit 
of British Humanity^. I will now trace the progress of a 
dead hor^e through all the stages of his posthumous utili- 
ty, greatly to the credit of the skill and frugality of that 
most ingenious people, as economical manufacturers. 
A gentleman’s horse dies. The routine of disposing^ 
of the dead animal, is this. 
He is sent to the sadler, who gives credit for him at a 
Guinea. The sadler gives notice to the currier, who has 
the horse conveyed to some repository for dead horses ; 
where he is skinned, and the currier takes away the skin^ 
leaving the carcase. The skin, is depiled by lime, drest 
and tanned in the usual way : the oflfal of tiie skin cut olF 
* I republished about three years ago, Lord Erskine^s admir- 
able speecji on cruelty to animals : it well deserves frequent perusah 
