78 THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 
No one, who attributes the origin of the world to the power 
and fiat of the Almighty, can fail to admit that all natural pheno- 
mena, and the laws that regulate the material universe, are mani- 
festations of the will of the same Creator ; “ fire and hail, snow 
and vapours, wind and storm fulfilling his word ; mountains and 
all cedars, beasts and all cattle, worms and feathered fowls.” No 
consistent believer, therefore, should be apprehensive of any dis- 
crepancy between those unwritten manifestations of his power and 
godhead, and the written revelation he has vouchsafed to us in his 
holy word. The same universal law which now governs our planet 
and its innumerable inhabitants, ruled when they were first created 
— when angels’ harps rolled their deep notes over our world, as it 
sprung forth in its young and peerless beauty from the hands of 
the Deity. On every hand were exhibited the bright evidences of 
its Maker’s mysterious power, then, as now; and all the functions 
of life, and all the orders of animated existences, obeyed their 
Creator’s fiat. The finger which first gave to them their unalterable 
law has never touched them since : they have never had but one 
principle to govern them — one law to guide. 
There cannot be a doubt, then, that the instincts and habits of 
the inferior animals have never been altered, and that they were 
all created in their different localities, on soils and in climates well 
and wisely adapted to their various constitutions. 
QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
1. Locality? 
2 Soil, pasture, and previous feeding ? 
3. First appearance of the Epidemic ? 
4. State of the weather ? 
5. Had these cattle any communication with other stock? 
6. Did they travel along the road on which infected animals had travelled ? 
7. Did any servant, or other person, that had attended on other diseased 
animals, come in contact with these animals ? 
8. What is your opinion as to the infectious or contagious quality of this 
disease ? Very particular and full here. 
9. What were the earliest symptoms ? Did it appear primarily in the feet 
or mouth ? 
10. Describe the gradual progress. 
11. Treatment, particularly the questions of Bleeding and Physic. 
12. Duration of disease ? 
13. Number of patients, and result? 
14. Number of diseased animals in your neighbourhood, and general result? 
15. What alteration took place in the milk ? 
16. How far did the condition of the animal, or his age, influence the complaint ? 
17. Had it connexion with other diseases ? 
18. Did it much influence the after-condition of the animal ? 
19. Has the disease appeared a second time in the same animal, and with 
what degree of intensity, and what result ? 
