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present the men whose experience of this cattle 

 distemper gives them the highest authority 

 Hertwig, Jessen, Koll, Siegmund, Gerlach, 

 &c. 



The contagious typhus of horned cattle is 

 so fully in the epizootic state in those coun- 

 tries which are washed by the Black Sea, that 

 it was enough for the veterinarians present at 

 the Congress to manifest a desire to see cattle 

 afflicted with this disease, for the opportunity 

 so to do to be immediately afforded them.* 



Thus, then, the fact is undeniable, the con- 

 tagious typhus was raging, in June, 1865, in 

 Hungary and Eussia, as it rages there at all 



times. 







As for the conveyance of cattle from those 

 countries into England, the fact is no less 

 certain and assured. It is well known that a 

 convoy of 300 heads of cattle, proceeding from 

 the pasture-grounds of Hungary and Austria, 

 was transported into Finland by rail, and 

 afterwards shipped at Eevel for England. 

 Thanks to the rapid locomotion by steam, 

 the migration of these cattle had lasted but 

 ten days two days for the transport by land, 

 * See Note F. 



