316 BLACK LEG DISEASE. 



perished. However, after chancing the direction, 

 I came to a settler's hut, about three or four 

 miles distant from Mr. Reddal's farm, at Mut, 

 mut, billy ; I made inquiry of a man and woman, 

 who were at that time busily engaged in open- 

 ing a cow in the stock -yard, whether I was in the 

 right road ; after answering my inquiry in the 

 affirmative, the man asked me if I had ever seen 

 the disease called the " black leg," which pre- 

 vailed so much, and was still prevailing to some 

 extent among the cattle in the colony, inform- 

 ing me that the cow had died of the disease, the 

 first instance of it in this part of the country. 



I felt gratified at having an opportunity of 

 examining a case of this disease, of which I had 

 only previously heard an account ; so alighting, I 

 entered the stock-yard, and examined the dead 

 animal. Every part of the internal viscera was in a 

 perfectly healthy condition, the stomach was dis- 

 tended with food, and there was nothing in the 

 internal appearances exhibited to account for the 

 death of the animal ; but upon the thigh of the 

 left hind leg, I perceived a swelling, and on the 

 skin being laid back from it, an extent of dark ex- 

 travasated blood was seen, and there was a 

 similar state of extravasation upon one side of 

 the neck : cutting through the fascia, the whole 

 of the muscles, which had the appearances just 



