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the Russian frontier of Eastern Prussia. On the occurrence of 

 cases at Kowno and Tauroggen, and particularly at Lansayen 

 and Georgenhurg, places near to the frontier in the circle of 

 Tilset, more severe measures were adopted; the driving of cattle 

 along the right bank of the Niemen was interdicted, and all 

 traffic between the countries was suspended. No persons having 

 to do with cattle were allowed to cross ; or if so, they had to 

 undergo a quarantine, while mail passengers were fumigated at 

 the borders. In the month of August the authorities in the 

 circle of Gumbinen were ordered to stop all the cattle and horse 

 fairs which were to be held in the succeeding months of Sep- 

 tember and October. 



By the strictest enforcement of these sanitary regulations 

 this division of Prussia was preserved until the spring of 1857, 

 when the malady crossed the frontier and showed itself in the 

 villages of Bassnitzkehmen and Meldiglaucken on the 2nd and 

 3rd of April. The disease, however, was at once arrested by 

 the establishment of a military cordon, and by the wholesale 

 slaughter of the animals affected, as also of those suspected to 

 be diseased, and the burial of their carcases in quick-lime in 

 holes 8 feet deep. It was this immediate arrestation of the pest 

 in this district which induced us, as has been previously observed, 

 to alter our route and to go on to Silesia, instead of Eastern 

 Prussia and Courland, with a view of studying the nature of the 

 malady. 



From the preceding particulars it appears then that since the 

 latter part of 1855 the disease has entered the kingdom of Prussia 

 from adjacent countries in three of its different provinces, namely, 

 in November, 1855, in the circle of Inowraclaw, province ot 

 Posen ; in March, 1857, in the districts of Tost-Gleiwitz and 

 Lublinltz, province of Silesia ; and in the following April in the 

 villages of Bassnitzkehmen and Meldiglaucken, province of East 

 Prussia; besides having prevailed for several months in 1856 in 

 other parts of Silesia, coming there from Posen. 



Galicia. 



Leaving Silesia, we proceeded to Cracow, taking with us 

 letters of recommendation from Baron Schleinitz to Count Clam 

 Martinitz, President of this division of Galicia. Waiting our 

 arrival also, we found, at the poste-restante, a similar communi- 

 cation from Sir G. H. Seymour, her Majesty's ambassador at 

 Vienna, which was accompanied by the subjoined letter : — 



" Sir, " Vienna, April 27, 185G. 



" In compliance with the request made in your belialf b}' her Majesty's 

 Legation at BerUn, I at once appUed to the Minister of the Interior for tJie 



