ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &c. Si 
The ground is undulated, and sloping to the sea shore, by which 
it is bounded on the east for about a mile. 
It is not screened at all, but open to every wind, and parti- 
cularly to the east, north, south-east, and south-west winds. 
There is very little wood, and no hedge-row trees, a few strips 
of plantation being all the shelter on the farm. The situation 
is dry. There are few springs, and no running water on the 
farms. 
The surface soil is about one-third clay and one-third good 
rich loam, and the remainder, being that next to the sea, a 
light sand and gravelly soil. The sub-stratum or rocks that pre- 
vail are sandstone, limestone, and coal, alternating and dipping 
to the south-east, under the sea. There are no rivers, ponds, nor 
marshes on the farm*. 
When the epidemic commenced, the frost was severe, and it was 
so during the greater part of the time of the continuance of the 
disease. The prevailing wind was from the south-east and east. 
The cattle had not been in communication with any other 
animals, and he was very particular in preventing any such com- 
munication. 
They had not travelled on any public road, and there was no 
imaginable mode in which the disease could have been so com- 
municated to his cattle. 
The first animal that exhibited the disease was a cow, eight 
years old, and in calf, but giving milk. She was, however, in 
good condition, and had been fed on hay, straw, and turnips 
(Swedes). The next were several queys, two and a half years 
old, feeding for the butcher on oil-cake and Swedes. These last 
were in fold-yards, half a mile from where the cow was ; and what 
is singular is, that of three cows in the same house two escaped 
altogether, being the only animals on the farms that did so. 
They were forward in calf, and have since calved. 
Both of these animals were young and full grown, and suffered 
alike. 
The disorder first manifested itself by the animal becoming 
dull and refusing its food ; frothing and foaming at the mouth, 
and becoming lame in all its feet ; but how soon these symptoms 
appeared after the animal was infected cannot be determined. 
The symptoms were all he had to ascertain the presence of the 
disorder. 
The whole of his cattle had their feet and mouths affected 
simultaneously, or so nearly so as to make it impossible to state 
* In the progress of our inquiry we shall attend comparatively little to the 
nature, or dryness, or moisture of the soil, or to the prevalence of certain 
winds, for we sharil soon find that they had little or nothing to do with the 
character or prevalence of the epidemic. 
