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country. He found, however, from his observations 

 abroad that since 1817 there had been no disease of 

 this kind westward of a line between Kevel in the 

 Baltic and the Gulf of Venice, but to the eastward of 

 that line it had existed. He came up with the affec- 

 tion at the Carpathian mountains, where it was raging 

 in 1857 just as it is raging in England at the pre- 

 sent time. Not only had it existed there, but it had 

 been earned into the interior of Russia in the ordinary 

 method of the cattle trade. A person who was in the 

 habit of purchasing cattle attended a fair and bought 

 a number of animals, and took them to his own farm, 

 and in the course of ten days one or two were seized 

 with the disease, and the result was there was a gradual 

 spread of the evil in that district. It gained ground 

 until the Government instituted the sanitary police 

 regulations, which, though they were such as would 

 be considered strange in England, were, he believed, 

 absolutely necessary for the extirpation of the plague. 

 It was undoubtedly true that no foreign animals had 

 been seized at our ports or in the metropolitan market ; 

 but it was not necessary for the case they had in hand 

 to say whether the disease was or was not of foreign 

 importation. There was this fact before them, that it 

 was not until the month of June that the disease 

 appeared in England. A certain number of animals 

 came out of a diseased district. He had documentary 

 evidence that animals came from Revel and came from 

 the district of Esthonia. He had before him proof 

 that the disease now in England was raging in that 

 district. They had proof that shortly after the arrival 

 of those cattle in England the disease manifested itself 



