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im-ntioiii'd, were loiiiul siituruted with black 

 filijotl, even to llii" ])<>in'. r rail make no Iiettci" 

 comparison ot' its appearance than by saying it 

 seemed as if those parts of the body had been 

 aeverdy ll^t^n. tir mashed. 



The animal I examined wat* a younjv cow ; 

 (the disease is said to attack principally the 

 yearlings among cattle ;) she liad been perfecdy 

 well the preceding evening, but was found 

 dead early in the iwom^ig j feMU i^omacli 

 being fonnd flistcndt^d with food, it could not 

 liave been long ill previous to its death. On 

 arriving at the farm of Mut, mut, billy, I men- 

 tioued the circumstance to the overseer ; he was 



and expressed a f(ga)r of iia cattle becoming at- 

 tacked, as the disease was considered contagious ; 

 lie asserted that none of bis cattle had ever yet 

 been ati'ected, although he had heard of numbers 

 dying in ^istlfKJtp ftm -A^ di$^e. 



It ym a few da.ys iim ft% when staying at 

 Goulhum Plains, that a gentleman arrived, who 

 mentioned his having seen a ease of the disease 

 ijenoininated the black leg/' in the stock -yard 

 @f jtihfi iWm flkt Mtt% jQiiit, billy, timt aioming, 

 so fiMm thkcircttmstanc^ the feai?a af the ov«r- 

 seer, respecting the extension of the disease, 

 were unibrtunately realized. The Iiish assigned 



